Meet Mahi Malhani, the 17-year-old Delhi student who saw litter lying next to bins on a 2023 school trip and built TRASHbot, an AI-powered robot that sorts waste with 90% success and is now being tested in homes and schools
A school trip to Delhi’s Sundar Nursery in 2023 left 17-year-old Mahi Malhani thinking about something beyond the park’s gardens and restored monuments. She noticed plastic wrappers, bottles and food waste scattered on the ground, sometimes just a few steps away from dustbins. The sight raised a question to her. Why was litter still lying…