“I’ll eat my food and I go to throw something away and I’m confronted with an array of waste bins, and it’s just so confusing—everywhere you go, the rules are slightly different, and I’m still not sure that I’m doing it correctly.”

“我吃完东西去扔垃圾时，面前有一排垃圾箱，我就懵了。你去的所有地方分类规则都会有差异，我都不确定我扔得对不对。”

He thought that technology could help. “We started looking at the diminishing costs of sensors and robotic components and the increasing accessibility of algorithms and AI systems and we thought, maybe we can build something that does this better than people,” he says.

他认为这项技术会有所帮助。他说：“我们先是发现传感器和机器人部件成本下降，算法和人工智能系统的可达性提高，所以我们认为可以做出在垃圾分类方面比人类做得好的产品。”

It helped that current bins are already expensive—a single set in an airport might cost $1,200. “These are just shiny metal tubes that don’t do anything for you. So we thought we could build a robot that is price competitive and adds a ton more value.”

对我们有利的是现在垃圾桶都很贵，飞机场的一套垃圾桶就要1,200美元。“那些只是有光泽的金属桶，什么都做不了。所以我们想我们能做出一个机器人，价位合适，而且用处很大。”

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