Nov 13, 2025 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Featured, Recycling
With electric vehicles becoming mainstream, traditional battery recycling methods are struggling to keep pace. Manual disassembly is slow, hazardous and expensive, limiting the flow of reusable materials back into the supply chain. The new robotic system automates the...
May 8, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Recycling, Robots
Entering Recology’s recycling facility in South Seattle stuns your senses. The din from heavy machinery is continuous. While recycled goods are meant to be clean from food waste, your nose quickly knows that’s not happening. Crisscrossing the massive space...
Jan 16, 2025 | Environment, Recycling, Robots
The robotics industry should be creating robots that could be reprogrammed and repurposed for other tasks once its life span is completed, University of Bristol and University of West England researchers have advised. The study, published in Towards...
Oct 31, 2024 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Featured, Recycling
As part of an effort to promote recycling of electric vehicle components, the U.S. Department of Energy is giving a $2 million grant to University of Akron. The University will use the grant from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help eliminate the flow of...
Sep 16, 2024 | Recycling, Robots
A staggering amount of e-waste is generated by hard drives every year, with up to 70 million of them mindlessly shredded in their entirety. This results in the loss of valuable metals like neodymium, aluminum, and stainless steel. Microsoft aims to change that with...
Jun 6, 2024 | Recycling, Robots
Last week, TechCrunch paid a visit to Apple’s Austin, Texas, manufacturing facilities. Since 2013, the company has built its Mac Pro desktop about 20 minutes north of downtown. The 400,000-square-foot facility sits in a maze of industry parks, a quick trip...
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