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Robot Recycler Salvages Parts From Broken Machines
['Kohava Mendelsohn']
IEEE Spectrum
To continue robotic development sustainably, the industry should prepare for the dismantling, recycling, and rebuilding of our robotic systems.
The system consists of a predictive algorithm that guesses how a robot is broken, along with robotic manipulators that actually take the broken robot apart.
When you give the system a broken device and a CAD model, it first guesses how each part of the broken device should move.
These arms will specialize in a different part of the disassembly process so that an entire factory could use different robotic limbs to disassemble a wide range of products.
Then the circular economy would really shine, as people replaced broken parts in old devices instead of buying new ones all the time.