Tal Avitzur is obsessed with collecting what he calls "retro junk." The California artist spends hours sifting through scrapyards to find parts for the whimsical robots he dreams up. At his Talbotics ...

With no technical training (indeed, not much education at all), no external financial support, and no fancy computer-aided design, Wu Yulu manufactures his robots out of scrap metal, spare batteries, ...

Tal Avitzur may be a math professor, but one look at his workshop reveals his other passion: scrap metal robots. For the last few years, he's been finding other's people junk and turning them into ...

The crackle of a welder, the bang of a hammer, and the click of snippers in a dry corner of South Australia's Mallee, is the sound of junk being given a second life, to help drought-affected ...

Swedish scrap processing company Skrotfrag is installing a robotic sorting line for scrap metal. The sorting line, equipped with a three-armed ZenRobotics Heavy Picker, will be the third of its kind ...