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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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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?
For retooling reasons. You can't keep the building machines around for long enough until each and every buyer decides to throw away their thing (add eBay and nostalgia into the mix and that may as well be "forever"). But if you have these machines that you _can_ keep around for dismantling purposes, regardless of the age of the product that is being dismantled, I think you got yourself a pretty good deal.
The deal could get even better if the manufacturers were to provide dismantling instructions to these robots as part of the product design process. That is unless these robots can identify what they're dismantling all on their own.
They've already been dismantled.
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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.
Are they actually able to recycle electronic components? The industrial cutter can takes apart a LCD screen, but they do not mention un-soldering.
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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It's not murder if the devices aren't active anymore.
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How would you feel if robots made you work on human bodyparts and corpses?
Because most of them will have grown up and found other jobs by then.
..if they can dismantle coal from the ground as quickly? Coal is good for humanity, you know!