Sustainability and resilience of process industries during uncertainty
tir. 28. jan.
|Webinar
The critical raw materials crisis
Time & Location
28. jan. 2025, 08:00 – 08:45 CET
Webinar
About the Event
New time: 08:15-09:00
Major process industries in Europe are heavily dependent on international supply of critical raw materials (CRMs) for fundamental products as well as for the green and digital shift. CRMs are mostly imported from outside Europe and their supply is at risk of disruption due to the increasing geopolitical conflicts.
In Europe, we throw away about one ton of electrical waste per 100 inhabitants each year in average. These wastes can contain valuable CRMs that can rather be recovered and fed into remanufacturing. Increased recovery and recycling from waste could be the solution to secure availability of CRMs. However, current sorting solutions are not effective for sparse materials in waste given that manual sorting is unrealistic due to unavailable manpower and costs.
In this talk, I will elaborate on the CRM crisis and on how AI, Data and Robotics could enable sustainable recovery and recycling of CRMs from waste.
Presented by Nabil Belbachir, Research Director DARWIN, NORCE
Nabil Belbachir has almost three decades of experience with computer vision, AI and robotics, as engineer, scientist, visionary leader and strategist, contributing with sustainable innovative concepts, products and solutions. He is a research director at NORCE, director at eu-robotics Aisbl and strategy advisor for ADRA Aisbl for coordinating European Strategic Research, Innovation and Deployment Agenda 2030 and contributing to HEU work programme 2025-2027 in AI, Data and Robotics.
He has a PhD (2005) in computer science from TU Vienna (Austria). He edited the single-source Springer book “Smart Cameras (2009)”, translated into Chinese by China Machine Press (2014). He has over 120 scientific publications, 3 patents and he is recently coordinating two Horizon Europe Innovation projects COGNIMAN and iBot4CRMs on AI-powered robotics respectively for Smart Manufacturing and for critical raw materials recovery.