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By Kasia Kerridge | CBS 11-Colorado Springs A local recycling facility is the first in southern Colorado to use a robot to help sort materials. 11 News visited Republic Services, near I-25 and Garden of the Gods, to see the AMP Cortex in action. Republic Services says the AI-guided recycling robotic system helps sort food and beverage containers from El Paso, Pueblo, Chaffee and Elbert counties. “It uses a vision system and it recognizes materials that [are] coming up through the stream, and it will decide what to pick,” said maintenance safety tech at Republic Services Thomas Brackett. “It has a vacuum tube, and what it will do is it registers, it will go down and pick it and then it will shoot it down into the shoot that it needs, so it uses air.” READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS 1...