Sadako Technologies, S.L.

Address:

Av. Madrid 63-73 Esc B 1º5ª
ES-08028 Barcelona
Spain

Contact:

Belén Garnica
phone: +34934900368
email: bgarnica@sadako.es

Year of foundation:

2012

Number of employees:13

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence, recycling, waste, circular economy, computer vision, advanced perception, robotics solution

Company profile:

Milions Tons of valuable packaging materials processed by Urban Waste Treatment Plants are lost (incinerated or land filled) each year, meaning huge economical losses and environmental damage.

In most cases, losses occur because current sorting technologies (NIR based sorters that require big investments) or expensive manual sorting makes uneconomical a higher recovery. Dimension of the problem is immense. Only in Europe and only considering post consumer packaging plastic, each year 7,4 Million Tones of valuable material are lost. That equals 1.800 Million €.

To help overcome this situation, SADAKO has developed Wall-B, the first automatic sorter robot for household waste based on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision.

Visual recognition and manipulating capabilities of Wall-B are state-of-the-art of robotics technology. This innovation can dramatically and cost-effectively increase recovery of valuable waste material, especially from low to mid volume streams where conventional technology has long paybacks and manual sorting is expensive, drudgery and not economically efficient.

Products and services:

Our first product is Wall-B, waste sorting robot that can recover up to 200 Tons of recyclables (as PET and HDPE plastic bottles) per year. It’s based on disruptive proprietary artificial intelligence and computer vision algorithms and advance robotics. Two Wall-B are already installed in two different big Waste Treatment Plants near Barcelona (Spain).

Our next product pipeline includes advanced versions of Wall-B (with higher recovery and wider range of recyclable targets), and other solutions for the waste industry as a monitoring system for waste treatment plants based on AI.
We are also available for tailored suit projects involving Artificial Intelligence and Computer vision for recognition and manipulation in complex real environments.