Robotics Engineering for Environment & Sustainability

Four kinds of bounded work: a sensing and pick trial for one fraction from a dry-recyclables belt, a fixture for non-hazardous parts at an e-waste bench, a sampler interface for a water platform you already operate, and an air-sensor carrier checked beside a reference monitor. Each starts on a bench. Power plants sit on our Energy & Utilities page, crops on Agriculture.

Not as a starter service. Sewer and septic-tank cleaning carries specific legal duties for local authorities and agencies, and confined spaces bring gas, oxygen and rescue risks that need a qualified owner and permit system. We will not suggest that a prototype makes entry acceptable. Any such work is scoped separately with the authority, its confined-space specialists and its approvals, never as an add-on.

No. Our work covers the platform, mount, sampler and logging; it does not make data compliance-grade. Legal samples need sealing, preservation and handling by a recognised or accredited laboratory, and regulatory monitoring stations follow their own requirements. We compare readings with your laboratory or reference instrument and state the agreement measured, the conditions and the gaps, so you can judge what the data is fit for.

It shows how one method performed on your material at the tested belt speed and burden depth, with weighed purity, recovery and stoppages against a manual-sort audit. It does not establish line-speed recovery, multi-shift duty, or results in another season or stream. If the trial looks promising, the next step is a separately scoped pilot, often with a commercial sorter supplier, under fresh acceptance terms.

No. Our bench work covers fixtures, holding, assisted screwdriving, weighing and identification for non-hazardous parts of a named device family, inside a registered dismantler's or recycler's facility and records. Batteries, CRTs, lamps, refrigerants, shredding and metal recovery need the facility's authorisation, fire and exposure controls and specialists. We do not take e-waste into our premises, dismantle it ourselves or arrange its disposal.

You do, on terms agreed before anything changes hands: which images, records and models we may hold, where, for how long, and how they are returned or deleted. Belt footage can show workers' faces and personal documents in the waste, so capture is minimised and masked. Sampling locations may be sensitive, and none of this material trains models for other clients without your written permission.

Yes, for a defined piece of work with named deliverables and review dates, such as a gripper trial, a sampler interface or a bench fixture. Tell us the package, the site and the timing; we put forward profiles against real availability and you interview them. Engineers follow your induction and isolation rules. They do not operate your plant, sign compliance records or replace your competent persons.

Cost depends on how many fractions, device families or sampling points are tested, the bench and rig build, supervised site time under your isolation process, reference analysis and documentation. Laboratory fees and supervision often weigh as much as hardware. Afterwards you keep the editable design files, a report naming every failure and every condition left untested, and our advice: carry on, scale back, purchase a commercial system or stop.