Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Industrial

Robotic Waste and Recycling Sorting

Robots that recognise and pick recyclable items from waste streams.

visionrobot policyunverified
1named models
704candidates
0deployments
0in Indonesia

Named Models

GoogleCircularNetGoogleReleasednot in the notesRuns onnot in the notesClassvisionGoogle waste identification models that segment and classify materials on recycling conveyor belts.Commercial use: not stated; Jakarta hosting: unknown; Indonesian support: not stated
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Models the research names for this use case. Research, with sources on each model record.

Who Runs It

No deployment is recorded for this use case.

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Documented uses by named organisations. The evidence column says who made the claim.

Candidate Models

COCO val

A general benchmark for this model class, not a test on this use case. Object detection and segmentation AP (mAP50-95). Higher is better. Showing 10 of 11.

RoboflowRF-DETR 2XLRoboflow vendor-reported60.1UltralyticsYOLO26xUltralytics vendor-reported57.5UltralyticsYOLO26lUltralytics vendor-reported55University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)D-FINEUniversity of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center independent55RoboflowRF-DETR MRoboflow vendor-reported54.7UltralyticsYOLO26mUltralytics vendor-reported53.1RoboflowRF-DETR SRoboflow vendor-reported52.9UltralyticsYOLO26sUltralytics vendor-reported48.6UltralyticsYOLO11Ultralytics independent48.3RoboflowRF-DETR NRoboflow vendor-reported48
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UltralyticsYOLO26lUltralytics, visionReleasedJan 2026open weightsruns on edgehas scoreslast 18 monthsUltralyticsYOLO26mUltralytics, visionReleasedJan 2026open weightsruns on edgehas scoreslast 18 monthsUltralyticsYOLO26nUltralytics, visionReleasedJan 2026open weightsruns on edgehas scoreslast 18 monthsUltralyticsYOLO26sUltralytics, visionReleasedJan 2026open weightsruns on edgehas scoreslast 18 monthsUltralyticsYOLO26xUltralytics, visionReleasedJan 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsRoboflowRF-DETR 2XLRoboflow, visionReleasedNov 2025runs on edgehas scoreslast 18 monthsRoboflowRF-DETR MRoboflow, visionReleasedNov 2025runs on edgehas scoreslast 18 monthsRoboflowRF-DETR NRoboflow, visionReleasedNov 2025runs on edgehas scoreslast 18 monthsRoboflowRF-DETR SRoboflow, visionReleasedNov 2025runs on edgehas scoreslast 18 monthsMetaSAM 3Meta, visionReleasedNov 2025open weightshas scoreslast 18 months

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Derived, not researched: models in the directory whose class matches a class this use case uses, excluding family records and models shut down or deprecated. Ranked by how many fit facts they meet, then by release date. Each fit fact is read from the model record.

Sources

  1. cloud.google.com/transform/101-real-world-generative-ai-use-ca... https://cloud.google.com/transform/101-real-world-generative-ai-use-cases-from-industry-leaders

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Robotic Waste and Recycling Sorting", https://aurion.semai.id/usecases/ind-robotic-waste-sorting/, records of October 2026.