Volvo wants to replace trash men with robots

There’s no denying that trash men have an essential job, but it’s also a very simple one, so simple, in fact, that you could probably program a robot to do it. That’s exactly what Volvo wants to do with its new ROAR Project, which stands for Robot-based Autonomous Refuse Handling. Volvo and its partners will be developing and evaluating the autonomous technology until next summer, at which point actual field testing will begin.