I have been barely busy on this project with life events taking over every other aspect of time. So what have a I done...

1.) Got approval from son to modify his power wheel as our test robot platform

2.) Obtained several thousand images of "trash" and painstakingly hand photo-chopped each piece out.

3.) Started to run the image recognition software on the test images however it wants to scale all the images which makes trash look really ugly. This makes me want to take a step back and teach the robot, "what doesn't belong here". Maybe Sesame Street can help....