Tekntrash Alpha
Humanoid robot for sorting waste on recycling conveyor belts
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ALPHA (Automated Litter Processing Humanoid Assistant) is a humanoid robot TeknTrash is developing to pick recyclable items off conveyor belts and handle waste in recycling plants. It pairs dual grippered arms on a height-adjustable column with a wheeled, autonomously navigating base, and uses hyperspectral cameras positioned at the start of the belt to track and allocate items. Units are designed to operate as a cloud-coordinated team rather than independently.
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Overview
ALPHA, short for Automated Litter Processing Humanoid Assistant, is a humanoid robot that TeknTrash describes itself as still developing. It is aimed at one of the most hazardous and high-turnover jobs in the waste industry: manually sorting recyclables on conveyor belts. The company frames waste handling as dangerous, unsanitary, repetitive, and degrading work that is better suited to a robot.
The robot is built around a chest with two grippered arms, a head, a height-adjustable lifting column, and a wheeled mobile base that handles autonomous navigation, obstacle avoidance, positioning, mapping, and automatic charging. Rather than fixed pick-and-place cells with suction cups, ALPHA uses grippers and freedom of movement so it can reach items other systems miss, and is intended to eventually take on broader waste-handling tasks beyond the sorting line.
A distinguishing element is its perception and coordination model. Hyperspectral cameras at the start of the conveyor belt track items as they move and assign them to robots down the line, while the units are designed to run as a cloud-coordinated team of at least two rather than as self-sufficient individual machines. TeknTrash positions itself as a research company and has run real-world engagements, including a London pilot where human operatives wear VR headsets so their actions can be captured and used to train the robot.
Key Features
- Hyperspectral cameras that recognize materials using frequencies beyond the visible spectrum, mounted at the start of the conveyor belt to track and allocate items to robots along the line
- Dual arms with grippers (instead of suction cups that need constant cleaning) for picking recyclables, plus 3D depth vision
- A wheeled, self-navigating base with lidar, ultrasonic sensors, depth camera, and IMU for autonomous movement, obstacle avoidance, mapping, and automatic charging
- Cloud-coordinated fleet operation, where a central camera feed directs each unit's task so robots work as a team rather than independently
- A height-adjustable lifting column letting the arms reach across different conveyor and bin heights
Specifications
Compute
| Compute | 275 |
Mechanics
| Degrees of Freedom | 6 |
| Locomotion | Rail-mounted |
Performance
| Max Speed | 150 m/s |
| Payload Capacity | 6 kg |
| Reach | 99 mm |
Physical
| Weight | 30 kg |
| Height | 2000 mm |
Power
| Battery Life | 7 hours |
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