A group of engineers in China has made throwing garbage fun and even a bit competitive. The team at HTX Studio has designed smart robot trash cans that can move on their own and catch flying trash ...

The innovation is currently being tested in homes, schools and residential societies.

It's easy to love a robot with a face. But it turns out we'll react just as positively to a trash can sitting on a Roomba. That was the finding of four students at the Stanford Center for Design ...

How do New Yorkers react to robots that approach them in public looking for trash? Surprisingly well, actually. Cornell researchers built and remotely controlled two trash barrel robots—one for ...

rStream co-founders Ian Goodine, left, and Ethan Walko stand beside their trailer trash sorter Friday at the UMass Waste Recovery and Transfer Facility in Amherst. The mechanism within the trailer ...