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 ...
More effective recycling is clearly an important part of the solution. But with most metrics suggesting that current systems can’t cope (for example, the UN’s 2024 global e-waste monitor ...
Matt Travers, a researcher from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, is using robotics to improve e-waste recycling.