[arthurus]

Around here a trucks pull up beside the garbage can, an arm picks up the can and dumps it into the top of the truck. It seems a bit quicker than this robot arrangement would be, and probably cheaper. The Driver does not leave the cab.
The Swedes are simply substituting robots for men who hang on the back of the truck and jump off to go grab the cans and dump them into the back of the truck.

[Steven Scharf]

This appears to take the concept one step further in that the robot goes to the side of the house and grabs the can as oppose to putting it beside the street.

Many municpalites are moving to one person truck with pick up arms., but the cans have to be at the street lined up correctly.