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Re:I'll buy your electronics to feed our robot by userbinator on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:12AM (#47570315)
China has been doing this sort of recycling for literally decades, at a massive scale.
Re:I'll buy your electronics to feed our robot by yellow_lead on Monday March 30, 2026 @02:08AM (#47570938)
Have any more information or sources? Would like to learn more
Re:I'll buy your electronics to feed our robot by skholinn on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:00AM (#47573141)
that's true, but we've only seen either highly specialized hardware that forces you to lock in or a methods (tumbling / rotary shredding) that destroy the components. we want to leverage general purpose policies more to make the cost of setting up "hardware reuse" nodes less and thus the whole supply chain more distributed and robust.