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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Designers Jiang Chen and Yang Junlin built the robots as part of their “Legend of Iron” project. Junlin, the head designer, explains that he believes in turning scrap metal into new treasure to reduce ...

I wanted to make something out of nothing, is what artist Pritpal Singh Matharu says about his passion for crafting mini robot figures or poly robots out of scrap metal that he collects from places ...

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Wang Ping, a retired man in Hohhot, North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, used scrap iron and bronze to build a 4.5-meter-high robot that weighs more than 2 tons. [Photo by Wang Ping / for ...

A giant metal robot stares curiously into a kaleidoscope in the woods. A towering, wooden bison toils under the weight of the home built into its back. They’re part of an art installation that debuted ...