The goal was to develop a solution that would ensure a "90% reuse and recycle rate of all hard disks by 2025." It's pretty easy to do this by hand but it's just not appropriate for the sheer scale ...

TrashBot uses sensors, cameras, and machine learning to ensure waste ends up in the right bin. (CleanRobotics Photo) PITTSBURGH — At a mall in Sydney, Australia, “the world’s first smart ...

So Microsoft turned to robots and machine learning to handle the repetitive and tedious tasks of taking apart a hard drive, separating all of the components, and recycling all the parts that can ...