OTSEGO COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- An Otsego County farm is partnering with Michigan Technological University engineering students to make history. Students are researching and creating a robot to ...

The Kent County Department of Public Works (DPW) has installed three recycling robots from Colorado-based Amp Robotics at its Recycling and Education Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The equipment ...

Emmet County, Michigan, is in the process of making $2.4 million in upgrades at its material recovery facility (MRF), including extending presort lines, installing a glass breaker screen to break and ...

PETOSKEY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- Plastic pollution has been a longstanding threat to the Great Lakes. But this summer alongside the usual cleanups, beaches in Antrim, Charlevoix, Emmet and Cheboygan ...

In an effort to connect Detroit's automobile heritage, nonprofits' efforts to fight pollution and what some see as a high-tech future, the city announced this week an effort to deploy a robot to help ...

ST. JOSEPH, MI — E.M.I.L.Y. is a remote-controlled robot that zips over waves to help struggling swimmers, which is being introduced on a pair of Lake Michigan beaches this summer. Supporters of the ...

SOUTH HAVEN, MI -- Lake Michigan is a magnet for summer tourists. Its sparkling shores and picturesque sunsets attract people from all over. Some never make it home. An average of 88 people per year ...