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At an office in San Francisco, if you drop a coffee cup in a robotic waste bin, the machine will automatically sort the cup for recycling. 在旧金山的一间办公室里，如果你把咖啡杯扔进机器人垃圾箱里，它就会自动把杯子分到可回收垃圾里。 The office is one of the first to use the technology, called TrashBot, from a startup called CleanRobotics that is trying to solve a fundamental challenge in recycling: Even when someone is diligently trying to reduce waste, there’s a good chance they’re recycling wrong. 这间办公室是第一批使用TrashBot（智能垃圾分类机器人）技术的，它是初创公司CleanRobotics的产品，旨在解决回收中最基本的问题：即使一个人想尽量减少浪费，但他们也很有可能回收错。 “The idea was really born out of frustration,” says Charles Yhap, cofounder and CEO of CleanRobotics, which is a semifinalist in the current IBM Watson AI XPRIZE. CleanRobotics公司进入了本届IBM沃森人工智能XPRIZE竞赛的半决赛，联合创始人兼首席执行官Charles Yhap说：“这个想法真的是无奈之举。” He points to the example of a store like Whole Foods, where anyone who eats at the salad bar then has to figure out which bin to use for their fork and box and cup. 他以Whole Foods（一家美国超市）这样的商家为例，在那里的沙拉吧就餐的人需要弄清楚他们的叉子、盒子和杯子要扔进哪个垃圾箱。 | 
