Sacyr's tyre recycling plant
At one of Europe’s largest tire recycling plants in Madrid, TeknTrash solved a critical issue of metal contamination by installing four high-speed industrial cameras on the primary tire processing machine, capturing images every second and using a YOLO-based AI model to detect stray steel teeth that could damage machinery; when metal was detected, the system instantly alerted the plant’s IoT control to stop operations, preventing costly damage, minimizing downtime, and ensuring the production of safe, high-quality rubber products for applications like playground and kindergarten flooring.
Sharp Group's London recycling plant
TeknTrash partnered with Sharp Group to pilot their humanoid robot **ALPHA** at a high‑throughput recycling facility in Rainham, East London (handling \~2,800 tonnes of waste weekly), addressing the challenge of labour shortages for 24×7 operations and suboptimal working conditions. Using Meta Quest 3 headsets running bespoke HoloLab software, front‑line staff record their finger movements and visual inputs while sorting recyclables; this motion and video data is uploaded in real time to Google Cloud, processed, and used to train ALPHA via NVIDIA Isaac Gr00t. The resulting humanoid model—equipped with hyperspectral cameras, dexterous dual‑arm grippers, and autonomous mobility—mirrors human sorting performance without fatigue, ultimately raising purity rates, reducing contamination, and enabling expansion of fully robotic sorting across recycling sites ([tekntrash.com][1]).
[1]: https://www.tekntrash.com/london.php?utm_source=chatgpt.com "London - Humanoid Pilot - TeknTrash"
