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2027 Honoree Award

ROBrix: AI Sorter That Saves Chips and Metals Before Shredding

ROBOne Co., Ltd.
  • 2027 Honoree in Energy Transition & Sustainability
ROBrix is an AI sorting system that grades waste PCBs by resource value before shredding destroys them. Before shredding, every board is imaged by a 25MP camera. AI trained on waste PCBs reads the parts to identify the board type and routes it to the right outlet without halting the line. Because metal content and mounted chips differ by type, type determines value. High-value chips such as FPGAs, power semiconductors and memory lose all value once shredded; here they are identified while intact. Doing this by hand was never sustainable: judgment varies by operator and leaves with them. ROBrix judges a board in 2 seconds, twice as fast as a skilled worker, at 93.37% accuracy and climbing. Live in the U.S. since April 2026, it has judged 53,762 boards. AI servers and data centers advance fast, but the systems recovering what they leave behind lag. ROBrix fills that gap.

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