Garbage trucks don't just haul away our rubbish — they break it up and compress it, making room for the huge volumes they collect every day. To do this, they sometimes use a blade that rotates quickly ...

A pair of robotic arms, directed with a joystick operated by a driver, is the future of trash pickup in New York, or at least one version of a future that is being piloted. Photo: ...

The truck drove like a hulking ghost in the near-darkness. Gone was the roar of an internal combustion engine, the quintessential booming that signals to every neighborhood when it’s garbage day. With ...