(Original title: Robot Picking Garbage Finnish Technology Helps China Crack “Garbage Siegeâ€)
ZenRobotics is a representative of Finland's innovative, high-tech companies. The realistic version of “Robot Force†was successfully built by the company, liberating manpower from the dirty and dangerous work of sorting garbage.
Last December, Finland’s ZenRobotics signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Jiangsu Luhe Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Greenâ€), and the two companies cooperated on China’s first building harmonized mixed-use (decoration) garbage disposal project. ZenRobotics' artificial intelligence sorting system plays an important role in this project. This is also the first time that ZenRobotics has entered the Chinese market.
“China's decoration waste disposal needs are very urgent, but due to the constraints of technological bottlenecks, development is slow. Finland’s ZenRobotics’ AI technology has provided us with great support. Green has been committed to using new concepts, new technologies, and new processes to promote the industry. The development.†Green and General Manager Xue Feng told reporters in the 21st Century Business Herald.
Effective sorting rate up to 98%
“We are doing the first nationwide project to harmlessly dispose of garbage. There is no precedent and there is no mature technology in the country. We went abroad to seek technical support three years ago. From Japan and South Korea to Europe and the United States, we took repeated actions and eventually contacted us. The Finnish artificial intelligence sorting technology has impressed us. Only this company can do this technology globally. It has already had many successful application cases worldwide.†An economic report reporter said in an interview.
The construction waste treatment industry has just started in China, and its decoration wastes are increasingly harmful to the ecological environment due to their complex composition, low utility value, and high disposal costs.
The technology mentioned by Yang Yingjian is the recycling waste classification system developed by ZenRobotics of Finland. It is the world's first robotic waste sorting system that has been applied commercially. It includes software systems for artificial intelligence recognition technology and high-speed, high-precision industrial robots (manipulators) that can be used to sort materials of various categories.
ZenRobotics is a company that specializes in robot recycling technology and has attracted the attention of many media. The BBC listed it as one of the most promising Finnish start-ups after Nokia. The company sells products and provides services based on technology and licenses the implementation of AI control systems.
Janica Johansson, marketing director at ZenRobotics, said that there is no need for human involvement in the process of garbage sorting, and there is no preprogramming to guide the robot to do the task. The robot can make its own decisions.
Unlike traditional sorting techniques that rely on code to distinguish materials, the ZenRobotics robot system can be learned through “examples†that use sensor scans to identify the surface structure, shape, and material composition of an object. Customers can provide 200 samples. "Teach" robots to identify new materials.
According to TimRobotics CEO Timo Taalas, this learning capability gives robots the flexibility to adapt to changing waste streams. Traditional sorting equipment is expensive to invest in, but its functionality is fixed, and ZenRobotics' systems can be adapted to different materials.
At present, ZenRobotics's robots are mainly used for sorting architectural and industrial materials, including metal, wood, plaster, stone, concrete, hard plastic, cardboard, etc., but it can also be “trained†to sort other materials except trash, which Work content can be easily updated through the software.
According to the data, a robot can sort 4 different kinds of debris with high accuracy, the effective sorting rate can reach 98%, the highest sorting speed is 3000 times/hour, and the working time is 24 hours/day.
21st Century Business Herald reporter learned that Green and purchased two sets of ZenRobotics' artificial intelligence sorting systems and equipment used in Changzhou, Jiangsu. ZenRobotics will provide relevant technical and service support to help Green Harmony put garbage into harmless treatment. . "According to the plan, it is expected that the arrival of equipment in Finland at the end of August, the installation in September, and the trial run in October." Yang Yingjian told reporters.
He further explained that "We have introduced two sets of equipment on the production line, that is, four robots, which is equivalent to replacing the workload of 48 people, and it will cost less in the long term. There is no occupational health hazard for the sorting garbage. With high accuracy, low management costs, and high efficiency of large-scale production, the 300,000-ton annual throughput using robot sorting can increase efficiency by 40% compared with manual.â€
Collaborate on Cracking "Garbage Fortress"
"This cooperation is based on the application of Finnish company technology to our project. On the other hand, it is aimed at the future development of China's construction waste resource utilization industry. The two sides signed an agency cooperation agreement and a technology research and development agreement." Yang Yingjian Say.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development established the first "Green Building Industry Clustering Demonstration Zone" in Wujin District, and Greenpeace is a public-private partnership company established in the Demonstration Zone. Its main business is the harmless treatment and resource utilization of urban construction waste. In 2017, the company will build an industrialization demonstration project that will process 300,000 tons of decoration waste annually in the demonstration area.
According to Yang Yingjian, the introduction of ZenRobotics equipment will be put into the production line. ZenRobotics needs to upgrade the software and equipment for the characteristics of Chinese decoration garbage based on the cooperation of the two parties' technology research and development. ZenRobotics artificial intelligence sorting system and equipment account for about the entire investment. One-third of the cost of the production line.
He told reporters that a large part of China’s construction waste is garbage generated during the decoration process. Unlike Europe and the United States, all garbage is mixed together without any front-end classification, so the components are more complex and sorting. More difficult. “Greens and Zenrobotics will play their respective technological advantages and jointly develop an automated processing line for the characteristics of Chinese decoration and rubbish.â€
“Our project is an important part of the national green building area to demonstrate the green building industry. Therefore, the requirements for technological advancement are very high. After the completion of the project, it will fill the gaps in the industry in China and reach the world's leading level in terms of technology. Yang Yingjian said.
The “Report on the Development of China’s Construction Waste Recycling Industry (2014)†pointed out that China’s construction waste generated annually due to new construction, demolition, and renovation is approximately 1.55 billion to 2.4 million tons. However, the utilization rate of resource utilization of construction waste in China is less than 5%, and the utilization rate of resources in developed countries is as high as 95%.
“The 90% ratio is our huge potential for the utilization of construction waste. If we build 95% of our country's construction waste, we can create trillions of output value.†Deputy CPPCC National Committee Member, National Institute of Landscape Design and Research, Qingda University President Xu Jin told the media during the two sessions this year.
Yang Yingjian said that the green harmless treatment industrialization demonstration project has applied for the Jiangsu-Finland Provincial Cooperation Project and will become a model for promoting Sino-Finnish exchange enterprise cooperation. “There are still some controversies regarding the way of industrialization of refuse decoration. The profit model of market-oriented operation of enterprises is more difficult. However, with the rapid improvement of social environmental awareness, the industry will usher in development opportunities.â€
Optimistic about the potential of robotic junk sorting in the Chinese market, Luhe signed the exclusive rights of zenrobotics recycling sorting equipment in China. (Editor: Zhao Haijian)
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