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Robots Put To Work On E-Waste
aesoteric writes: Australian researchers have programmed industrial robots to tackle the vast array of e-waste thrown out every year. The research shows robots can learn and memorize how various electronic products — such as LCD screens — are designed, enabling those products to be disassembled for recycling faster and faster. The end goal is less than five minutes to dismantle a product.
It's called Wall-E.
Give me a crusher and a big enough centrifuge and I'll separate stuff for you much faster than that!
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Sooo, why not use the robots that put them together in the first place in reverse order?
What are third and fourth world economies going to do when they have to learn how read to earn a living?! There's a little boy, "Ashowkar Gupta" and his only dream is to wade into the Ganges when it becomes a gray and bubbling gue. Now his dreams are shattered by a Sky Net T-1000 "cannibalizing" e-waste. How will Ashowkar's future be now? Tragic, just tragic.
And industrial shredder can dismantle a product in a second or two.
I always think... what are the people who were doing it going to do?
We soon have a surplus of H-Waste.... what are all these people going to do? In fact in The Netherlands an MP has brought up the topic an era in which there may not be paid work for everyone anymore. What will it mean for those who just can't find work?
What do you all think? If I could hit a button and it would wipe out 50% of the population including myself/loved ones, I would press it without any hesitation. It would be a nice reset of what is much overlooked, namely that we are with too many! And we can't all 7B live lives like most Westerners do. The species will survive easily, so that's not at risk, just individuals will be impacted.
If not that, what else? Camps where non workers will be put. You don't think that a non-worker will be allowed to live in the nicest real estate in town do you? Do we get human feeding lots where they get guaranteed food/care but are not allowed to reproduce?
Thoughts?
My thought is you should go fuck yourself
Robots dealing with a bunch of electronic innards? Seems like working in a morgue.
My uncle dismantled a Chevy Nova in 4 seconds. He did have some help from a train.
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.
a robot to disassemble the robots that disassembled stuff?
And what about the robots to disassemble the robots that disassembled robots that disassembled stuff?
And what about the robots to dis..........AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH MY BRAIN!
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Let robots learn to disassemble electronic waste, is same as let human workers cut up and cremate human bodies. I wonder if they need psychology doctors for their work...
Would that make the robots murderers? Cannibals?
Are they actually able to recycle electronic components? The industrial cutter can takes apart a LCD screen, but they do not mention un-soldering.
WALL-E
That's a good non-reproducting activity that will keep him happy and busy at a very low cost, good thinking!
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How would you feel if robots made you work on human bodyparts and corpses?
Inspire people to follow you. Start small. With yourself.
..if they can dismantle coal from the ground as quickly? Coal is good for humanity, you know!
Take your ewaste. Have it seperated out by type. displays vs. pc's vs phones vs. other...
Send each down their own conveyor belt, where robotic stations remove casing, and desolder and remove surface mount and through-hole components.Included in this, is 3 degrees of freedom for every piece being dismantled.
Once most, if not all, non wafter board pieces are off, send the bare boards into a vat, where they are dipped, sprayed, doused in lquid Nitrogen, or extremely cold fluid of your choice.
In same vat, drain all liquid, and then shatter with a high decibel acoustic wave.
What you have left, is very small bits of wafer mulch, ready to be centrifuged and seperated.
This sound feasible?
now we're giving the robots the parts they need to make more robots.
Doesn't anyone watch Terminator any more?