The rapid proliferation of robots and electronic devices is placing the world under a new and growing environmental burden.
Sustainability can mean many different things, depending on what you’re focusing on. When you dive in deep, the terms can get confusing, and many that seem interchangeable are actually very different.
Global electronic waste reached approximately 62 million metric tons in 2022, with soft robots—widely ...
Bacardi rum bottles, Skittles sweet wrappers, designer water bottles—a bevy of companies are developing biodegradable plastic packaging they say is better for the environment than traditional plastics ...
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As end-of-life robotic systems are emerging as a new source of next-generation e-waste, a team from Seoul National University (SNU), Sogang University and Johannes Kepler University Linz has built a ...
Synthetic petrochemical plastics can persist in the environment for hundreds of years - Copyright AFP TIMOTHY A. CLARY Synthetic petrochemical plastics can persist in ...