The Zeiss Contaflex cameras are well known to, shall we say, more "mature photographers". They were a series of leaf-shuttered SLRs in the Fifties and Sixties. What most people don’t realize is that ...

Divide this grid into four identical, nonoverlapping shapes along the square boundaries. Each shape must contain two of the same letters. Show puzzle solution There are four different solutions, which ...

Before any clothing can be recycled, it must be taken apart. This process, known as disassembly, is quickly becoming a major sticking point in the race to scale textile-to-textile recycling. “You ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Covers the future of sustainable, resilient and affordable housing. At CES this year there were so many amazing gadgets, ...

Built and Coreo's Building Disassembly Plan acts as an “assembly plan in reverse,” documenting how materials, products and components can be dismantled for reuse, resale, donation or recycling.

Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has great potential for skill acquisition in robotic disassembly, but the process in real-world scenarios remains inefficient. In response, we present an ...

MAGDEBURG, Germany—Engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation (IFF) here are developing an automated process for electronics recycling. The goal of the Intelligent ...

The problem of electronic waste has been growing in the recent years, and with constant upgrades in technology it is going to grow further. Therefore, researchers have started work on a robot to ...

A new UN report finds that more and more electronic waste, or e-waste, is being produced worldwide—recycling efforts are not keeping pace, though. Valuable raw materials are not being recovered and ...

A new UN report finds that more and more electronic waste, or e-waste, is being produced worldwide—recycling efforts are not keeping pace, though. Valuable raw materials are not being recovered and ...