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🔋 Self-assembling electrolyte enables rapid disassembly for easier EV battery recycling
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-electrolyte-enables-rapid-disassembly-easier.html

Self-assembling electrolyte enables rapid disassembly for easier EV battery recycling
Today's electric vehicle boom is tomorrow's mountain of electronic waste. And while myriad efforts are underway to improve battery recycling, many EV batteries still end up in landfills.

Multi-Robot Vision-Based Task and Motion Planning for EV Battery Disassembly and Sorting
Abdelaziz Shaarawy, Cansu Erdogan, Rustam Stolkin, Alireza Rastegarpanah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21020

Multi-Robot Vision-Based Task and Motion Planning for EV Battery Disassembly and Sorting
Electric-vehicle (EV) battery disassembly requires precise multi-robot coordination, short and reliable motions, and robust collision safety in cluttered, dynamic scenes. We propose a four-layer task-and-motion planning (TAMP) framework that couples symbolic task planning and cost- and accessibility-aware allocation with a TP-GMM-guided motion planner learned from demonstrations. Stereo vision with YOLOv8 provides real-time component localization, while OctoMap-based 3D mapping and FCL(Flexible…

Sometimes, when I get a native crash and I have no idea what happened, I paste the disassembly into aistudio and have it explain to me what is going on.
It might not be able to count how many letters are in strawberry, but it can pinpoint the root cause for a bug in Apple's Objective-C runtime.
This is a regression in iOS 26.1 beta:

So, after spending two half days in a colocation filled with several decommissioned but fully complete [including software] Siemens #EWSD digital telephone exchanges, I am happy to report that two of them will be rescued. We've dumped the hard disks and done some initial disassembly. Full disassembly and relocation will happen in upcoming months.

Embodied Intelligence in Disassembly: Multimodal Perception Cross-validation and Continual Learning in Neuro-Symbolic TAMP
Ziwen He, Zhigang Wang, Yanlong Peng, Pengxu Chang, Hong Yang, Ming Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11270

Embodied Intelligence in Disassembly: Multimodal Perception Cross-validation and Continual Learning in Neuro-Symbolic TAMP
With the rapid development of the new energy vehicle industry, the efficient disassembly and recycling of power batteries have become a critical challenge for the circular economy. In current unstructured disassembly scenarios, the dynamic nature of the environment severely limits the robustness of robotic perception, posing a significant barrier to autonomous disassembly in industrial applications. This paper proposes a continual learning framework based on Neuro-Symbolic task and motion plann…

Just completed the disassembly of another two Siemens EWSD digital telephone exchanges, which are now in a truck on their way to the Telecom Museum Dresden (Fernmeldemuseum Dresden). Largest time sink was untangling the hundreds of cables (mostly with proprietary Siemens connectors).. #retronetworking #telecom

Shell-Type Soft Jig for Holding Objects during Disassembly
Takuya Kiyokawa, Ryunosuke Takebayashi, Kensuke Harada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13802 https://…

Shell-Type Soft Jig for Holding Objects during Disassembly
This study addresses a flexible holding tool for robotic disassembly. We propose a shell-type soft jig that securely and universally holds objects, mitigating the risk of component damage and adapting to diverse shapes while enabling soft fixation that is robust to recognition, planning, and control errors. The balloon-based holding mechanism ensures proper alignment and stable holding performance, thereby reducing the need for dedicated jig design, highly accurate perception, precise grasping,…

Product Digital Twin Supporting End-of-life Phase of Electric Vehicle Batteries Utilizing Product-Process-Resource Asset Network
Sara Strakosova, Petr Novak, Petr Kadera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02167

Product Digital Twin Supporting End-of-life Phase of Electric Vehicle Batteries Utilizing Product-Process-Resource Asset Network
In the context of the circular economy, products in their end-of-life phase should be either remanufactured or recycled. Both of these processes are crucial for sustainability and environmental conservation. However, manufacturers often do not support these processes enough by not sharing relevant data. This paper proposes use of a digital twin technology, which is capable to help optimizing the disassembly processes to reduce ecological impact and enhance sustainability. The proposed approach …

We'll be rescuing another Siemens EWSD digital telephone exchange. If anyone is interested in helping us with disassembly and loading into the truck in Munich on October 23rd/24th, please let me know - more information in German at https://discourse.osmocom.org/t/ewsd-a

Combined effects of particle geometry and applied vibrations on the mechanics and strength of entangled materials
Saeed Pezeshki, Francois Barthelat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09933

Combined effects of particle geometry and applied vibrations on the mechanics and strength of entangled materials
Entangled materials offer attractive structural features including tensile strength and large deformations, combined with infinite assembly and disassembly capabilities. How the geometry of individual particles governs entanglement, and in turn translates into macroscopic structural properties, provides a rich landscape in terms of mechanics and offers intriguing possibilities in terms of structural design. Despite this potential, there are major knowledge gaps on the entanglement mechanisms an…

Hierarchical Planning and Scheduling for Reconfigurable Multi-Robot Disassembly Systems under Structural Constraints
Takuya Kiyokawa, Tomoki Ishikura, Shingo Hamada, Genichiro Matsuda, Kensuke Harada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14564

Hierarchical Planning and Scheduling for Reconfigurable Multi-Robot Disassembly Systems under Structural Constraints
This study presents a system integration approach for planning schedules, sequences, tasks, and motions for reconfigurable robots to automatically disassemble constrained structures in a non-destructive manner. Such systems must adapt their configuration and coordination to the target structure, but the large and complex search space makes them prone to local optima. To address this, we integrate multiple robot arms equipped with different types of tools, together with a rotary stage, into a re…

On the High Excitation 7$\alpha$ De-exciting States in $^{28}$Si$^*$
J. B. Natowitz, X. G. Cao, A. Bonasera, T. Depastas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08878 https://

On the High Excitation 7$α$ De-exciting States in $^{28}$Si$^*$
A direct comparison and analysis of published spectra for the 7$α$ disassembly of $^{28}$Si projectiles excited in collisions with $^{12}$C at 35 MeV/u reveals striking agreement in the derived excitation energies of high excitation energy resonances observed in two different experiments, in contrast to some earlier conclusions reported in the literature. Many of the observed resonances have excitation energies consistent with those arrived at in recent theoretical investigations explicitly pr…

Maintenance automation: methods for robotics manipulation planning and execution
Christian Friedrich, Ralf Gulde, Armin Lechler, Alexander Verl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18399 …

Maintenance automation: methods for robotics manipulation planning and execution
Automating complex tasks using robotic systems requires skills for planning, control and execution. This paper proposes a complete robotic system for maintenance automation, which can automate disassembly and assembly operations under environmental uncertainties (e.g. deviations between prior plan information). The cognition of the robotic system is based on a planning approach (using CAD and RGBD data) and includes a method to interpret a symbolic plan and transform it to a set of executable r…