recycledmatt

Awesome to see AoE, and games in general being future proofed. Sad when functionality is lost because someone turned off a server.

The nuanced answer to this is they have a first mover advantage and make a great robot. The point of the thread is that new development is much cheaper for folks to figure it out. Recyclers are the most entrepreneurial people you will ever meet. we’ll figure out some good uses for this stuff when it gets cheaper.

Super familiar. Thanks!

Folks in the industry are certainly thinking about this. The economic forces at play could be huge.

Most folks when they think of recycling, think of the blue bin they put out every week.

That’s about 25% by weight of all that gets recycled in the country.

Metals, industrial scrap, and other sources are 75% of what gets recycled in the US.

We are blue collar businesses, with high labor costs. Many are exploring robotics actively for repetitive tasks. We have some robots in our process, looking for more when the ROI makes sense.

It may not be 100x, but there will be value in robots in recycling.

They would be busy ferrying troops and supplies. Amateurs talk about tactics, professionals discuss logistics!

Yes - but they paint with a big brush. Unfortunately legitimate repair and reuse is caught in the mix and made much more difficult.

Lawyers and lobbyists paid lots of money to figure out how to subvert stuff.

OEMs may work to make stuff less consumer repairable/upgradeable to force folks to use their repair services that need stuff like bga reballing or soldering. Bye bye upgradable ram slots!

Things like software locks and restrictions in the name of ‘security’ will lock stuff down and make repair harder (see Apple’s part pairing)

Cool, let’s work on plastics!

Long after you are gone, you are going to give some Junk Removal person a heart attack.

Fascinating. Did she work in medical / hard science? I could imagine some exposure to radiation / magnetization could do this.

Supposed to flambé it

Not sure where you buy your steaks, but you are overpaying.