October 06, 2004
RFID Robot Technology
It is possible that one day we will all have robots in our homes that employ RFID tracking technology to make certain that every item is stocked and in proper order.
Kevin Maney at the USA Today discusses this and other future applications of RFID:
For instance, the technology could have a profound impact on garbage. Never again would you have to sort recyclables from other garbage. Just throw it all together. At a garbage facility, trucks could dump their loads on a conveyor belt that goes past an RFID reader, which could identify the tags on the products going by — a glass Pepsi bottle, a plastic milk jug — and redirect them into appropriate recycling bins.
Read more: RFID: Robot for infinite decluttering?
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