In Kurt Vonnegut's "Player Piano," workers displaced by robots find themselves with an abundance of material goods but a lack of jobs. Watching robots like those from Kiva -- recently acquired by ...

A new UN report finds that more and more electronic waste, or e-waste, is being produced worldwide—recycling efforts are not keeping pace, though. Valuable raw materials are not being recovered and ...

Panasonic uses AI-powered robots to automatically disassemble appliances, enabling recycling, material recovery, and circular ...

A fleet of Kiva robots is at the helm of streamlining the center’s costs and efficiency. Amazon, which owns Kiva Systems, has more than 15,000 robots in operation and aims to reduce its operating ...

Working with robots is becoming more common in the recycling industry, helping automate tasks and making complicated work easier. But training human employees to work with robots can be difficult and ...