How do you deal with garbage in space? That’s what a team at the University of Alberta is working on.

They are part of a NASA competition to send their space waste prototype to the moon.

Waste Parrot is the university’s spin-off company. They are working on an invention to deal with the garbage created by astronauts who typically produce 275 pounds of waste each month.

“We are trying to sort the ways in the best way possible, in a sense that we are using advanced computer vision models, so that it can help them sort their way, so that they can get the maximum output of their methane or hydrogen or whatever they’re trying to extract out of there,” said Junaid Tahir, an AI researcher and co-founder of Waste Parrot.

Their goal is to turn the garbage into tools, starting with a drone that

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