A pioneering collaboration between Innodisk, RealSense, and EverestLabs aims to transform recycling processes through an advanced AI vision solution. The collaboration seeks to enhance material sorting on recycling facility lines by combining Innodisk's APEX-P200 edge AI system, RealSense depth cameras, and the RecycleOS platform developed by EverestLabs.
Innodisk, recognized for its AI solutions, announced this partnership to deliver a scalable, real-time solution engineered for the demands of industrial recycling environments. These environments require systems capable of making swift decisions while maintaining resilience to environmental factors and ensuring continuous operation.
Challenges in Industrial Recycling
Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs), alongside other recycling operators and waste management companies, are under pressure to enhance recovery rates, improve material quality, and boost labor efficiency. Meeting these goals is complicated by strict regulatory standards. Traditional sorting systems struggle with complex and diverse waste streams, often leading to contamination and inefficiencies.
Technology Integration for Enhanced Sorting
The innovative solution centers around Innodisk’s rugged APEX-P200 edge AI system
The innovative solution centers around Innodisk’s rugged APEX-P200 edge AI system, integrated with RealSense's depth camera and EverestLabs's RecycleOS platform. This setup facilitates precise material identification and sorting, directly on the plant floor. Real-time multi-camera 3D analysis is enabled by a 13th-Gen Intel® Core™ i7 processor and an NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada GPU, allowing for rapid AI inference and on-site decision-making independent of cloud support.
Victor Le, President of Innodisk USA Corporation, stated, "Advancing sustainable recycling requires an edge AI solution that provides reliability in real-world industrial conditions. Working with EverestLabs and RealSense, we're delivering platforms that run continuously on production lines, helping facilities improve both recovery rates and environmental impact."
Precision and Reliability in Real-Time Sorting
RealSense’s depth cameras provide factory-calibrated 3D depth alongside color imaging, crucial for measuring and segmenting mixed materials transported on fast-moving conveyors. This precision is achieved through the potent combination of spatial data and robust processing by the APEX-P200, facilitating consistent real-time sorting.
Nadav Orbach, CEO of RealSense, emphasized, “Getting recycling right comes down to reliable perception in harsh, high-speed conditions. Together with Innodisk and EverestLabs, we’re bringing production-grade 3D sensing to the line so operators can increase purity and recovery without slowing throughput.”
AI-Driven Automation in Recycling
EverestLabs incorporates the APEX-P200 and RealSense technology into its AI-powered recycling systems
EverestLabs incorporates the APEX-P200 and RealSense technology into its AI-powered recycling systems. These systems deploy advanced Vision AI models, enhancing MRFs' operational efficiency, minimizing contamination, and enabling scalable AI-driven automation.
Ravichandra Malapati, Principal Engineer at EverestLabs, noted, "Our systems operate in some of the world’s toughest industrial environments and require embedded-grade reliability, high-accuracy Physical AI, and real-time responsiveness. Innodisk’s APEX-P200 meets all three requirements."
The partnership underscores Innodisk's collaborative strategy, working with market specialists and sensing innovators to deliver flexible edge AI platforms. This strategy supports the rapid deployment of production-ready solutions tailored to industry-specific needs.
The joint solution combines Innodisk’s APEX-P200 edge AI system, RealSense depth cameras, and EverestLabs’ RecycleOS platform to enable accurate material identification and sorting directly on recycling facility production lines.
Innodisk, a global AI solution provider, announces a strategic collaboration with RealSense and EverestLabs—a pioneer in AI-powered recycling automation—to deliver a scalable, real-time AI vision solution engineered for demanding conditions of industrial recycling environments.
Industrial recycling environments
The joint solution integrates Innodisk’s rugged APEX-P200 edge AI system with RealSense’s depth camera and EverestLabs’s RecycleOS platform, enabling accurate material identification and sorting directly on the plant floor—where split-second decisions, environmental resilience, and continuous uptime are critical.
Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs), recycling operators, and waste management companies face mounting pressure to improve recovery rates, material quality, and labor efficiency while meeting stringent regulatory requirements. Traditional sorting methods struggle with the volume and complexity of mixed waste streams, resulting in contamination, lower material value, and operational inefficiencies.
Multi-camera 3D analysis
The joint solution integrates Innodisk’s rugged APEX-P200 edge AI system with RealSense’s depth camera
At the heart of the solution is the Innodisk APEX-P200, an industrial-grade edge AI platform engineered to withstand harsh recycling conditions, including constant vibration, dust, variable lighting, and temperature fluctuations. Powered by a 13th-Gen Intel® Core™ i7 processor and an NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada GPU delivering up to 120 INT8 TOPS, the platform provides the high-performance compute required for real-time, multi-camera 3D analysis. By processing AI inference at the edge, the solution enables immediate decision-making without cloud dependency, helping facilities maintain throughput while improving material recovery and purity.
"Advancing sustainable recycling requires an edge AI solution that provides reliability in real-world industrial conditions," said Victor Le, President of Innodisk USA Corporation. "Working with EverestLabs and RealSense, we're delivering platforms that run continuously on production lines, helping facilities improve both recovery rates and environmental impact."
Real-time sorting decisions
RealSense’s depth camera provides factory-calibrated 3D depth with aligned color imaging, enabling precise measurement and segmentation of mixed, overlapping materials moving at conveyor speeds. As these high-precision imaging data streams require high-performance and reliable computing, Innodisk’s APEX-P200 serves as the ideal engine for the task. This combination of spatially accurate data and robust processing significantly enhances AI model performance, supporting consistent, real-time sorting decisions.
“Getting recycling right comes down to reliable perception in harsh, high-speed conditions,” said Nadav Orbach, CEO of RealSense. “Together with Innodisk and EverestLabs, we’re bringing production-grade 3D sensing to the line so operators can increase purity and recovery without slowing throughput.”
AI-powered recycling systems
EverestLabs integrates the APEX-P200 and RealSense technology into its AI-powered recycling systems
EverestLabs integrates the APEX-P200 and RealSense technology into its AI-powered recycling systems, deploying advanced Vision AI models that help Material Recovery Facilities improve operational efficiency, reduce contamination, and scale AI-driven automation across facilities.
“Our systems operate in some of the world’s toughest industrial environments and require embedded-grade reliability, high-accuracy Physical AI, and real-time responsiveness,” said Ravichandra Malapati, Principal Engineer at EverestLabs. “Innodisk’s APEX-P200 meets all three requirements.”
This collaboration reflects Innodisk's strategy of partnering across the value chain—from vertical market specialists to advanced sensing innovators. With flexible edge AI platforms and deep integration expertise, Innodisk enables partners to rapidly deploy production-ready solutions tailored to industry-specific requirements at scale
