'He never has a bad day, he never has a 1 1 hangover, he never complains,' says Zen-Robotics' project manager Juha Koivisto - with a big smile on his face - when asked to outline the advantages of a robot over human labour. Koivisto is leading a team of six Finnish engineers and computer programmers. And at Dutch company Baetsen Recycling, based in Son near the southern city of Eindhoven, they are installing 'the world's first robotic waste sorting system' - at least, that's what the Zen-Robotics Recycler is claimed to be. After the hardware for the robotic recycler was shipped to Eindhoven and installed by Busschers Recy-clingtechniques, Koivisto and his team are focusing on the software.
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