The problem is difficult to overstate. The European Union alone generated approximately five million tons of electronic waste in 2022. The U.S., for its part, produces ...

Over 80 percent of the e-waste generated ends up in landfills or incinerators – which results in chemicals leaching into the ...

A new UN report finds that more and more electronic waste, or e-waste, is being produced worldwide—recycling efforts are not ...

The Fraunhofer IFF wants to recycle more electronic waste. To this end, the institute has devised a dismantling system using ...

Researchers at UC Berkeley used their new AI technique to teach robots how to efficiently flip eggs, build motherboards and ...

The manufacturing industry in the UK is grappling with significant challenges that are impacting competitiveness, including a ...

The company says its Plainfield, Indiana, facility is able to process every type of alkaline battery.

“It’s happening right now around all of us: the new AI world. I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us. Robots cannot reflect the human condition for us. That is a dead end if an ...

Matt Travers, a researcher from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, is using robotics to improve e-waste recycling.

Inside the robotics laboratory of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a group of robots are busy cooking. There is nothing special about that; robotic chefs have been ...