Berk Calli, a robotics scientist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts, is leading a team of eight researchers at three universities on a project to develop robotics technology that could help make recycling facilities safer, cleaner and more efficient.
For the four-year project, researchers are using $2.5 million in funding from the National Science Foundation’s Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier. Part of the funding will be used to build a mock recycling line at WPI, so the researchers can test how the robotics could improve worker conditions and operations.
