So Microsoft turned to robots and machine learning to handle the repetitive and tedious tasks of taking apart a hard drive, separating all of the components, and recycling all the parts that can ...

“A hard drive sitting in your computer at home requires you as the consumer to take it to a recycler,” said Kali Frost, a doctoral student in industrial sustainability at Purdue University.

Can you recycle a hard drive? Google is quietly trying to find out Rare earth magnet recycling is about so much more than sustainable data centers.

Microsoft's recyclobot uses machine learning and computer vision to open and recycle 90% of hard drive components ...