ALPHA

ALPHA is a humanoid that TeknTrash is developing for recycling plants, where it is meant to sort waste, lift loads and move around the facility on its own. That is where the information attributable to the maker ends: TeknTrash has not published a data sheet, so height, weight, degrees of freedom, actuation, sensors, onboard computer, protection class and runtime are all unknown.

The company's home country and any sales date are equally unstated; figures that circulate in third-party databases contradict each other and are not confirmed by the maker, so the catalogue does not repeat them. The status is best read as prototype and the price as on request.

The underlying idea is easy to follow: manual picking on a sorting belt is monotonous, dirty and physically taxing, so a humanoid able to recognise and grasp mixed waste could relieve people without rebuilding the line. Whether ALPHA can already do this, the maker has not shown.

Until data appears this entry is a placeholder; plants looking at automated sorting will also find robots with documented specifications for mixed-material sorting in the catalogue, such as Cruzr Y1.