Robots for construction cleanup
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ROBOTS were recently put to work in Songjiang sorting construction detritus.
With giant “claws,” several of the yellow robots are operating at a construction site on Yanbang Road. The machines are 20 meters long and 5 meters wide, with a front funnel running on caterpillar tracks. The robots can quickly sort construction trash into piles of soil, sand, bricks and burnables.
A water circulation system controls the dust they create.
One robot can get through up to 300 tons of trash every hour, replacing the work of 20 to 30 laborers.
Within the first month, the machines have sorted 5.5 tons of recyclable wood materials and 5,000 tons of trash to be burned, along with concrete pieces, stones, bricks and mortar.
A robot can quickly crush bulk construction trash into smaller sizes suitable for burning or for hauling to the nearest landfill in Yexie Town.
The Songjiang District has said it will build a construction trash recycling system capable of handling 600,000 tons of trash a year by the end of 2019. Sorting is the first step.
A second, upgraded version of the robots will soon be manufactured.
It’s all part of a Songjiang goal to turn itself into a hub for robot manufacturing. A new research center broke ground recently in Dongjing Town in a 300,000-square-meter site called the CSG Robot Base. It was co-founded by the Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence and by CSG, a China leader in smart manufacturing of high-end equipment and smart distribution networks.
The site aims to produce robots for manufacturing, medical services and artificial intelligence systems. In the future CSG robots will be able to do remote-control medical diagnosis via the Internet and offer home nursing services to the elderly.
“The local government has given us strong support, which is why we are based here,” said CSG Chairman Huang Mingsong. “We will continue to upgrade our robot technology and develop innovative smart products.”
The robot base is one part of the G60 High-Tech Corridor that Songjiang has been building in the two years. It has become the home of companies involved in advanced materials, robots, information technology and software.
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