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Open House at Jožef Stefan Institute

The Jožef Stefan Institute Open House is intended for the general public, when JSI welcomes all who are interested in basic and applied research conducted at the institute. The Open House 2024 took place on March 23rd. The ReconCycle workcell for the dismantling of electronic devices was among the exhibits presented to the public. Several hundred visitors came to see the cell and receive further information about the importance of robotics for the recycling of electronic devices.

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President of Slovenia visited ReconCycle demonstrator at JSI

On June 2nd, 2023, the president of Slovenia, Nataša Pirc Musar, paid a visit to JSI. The director of the institute, along with his colleagues, provided her with an overview of the institute’s organization and activities, as well as current events both within the institute and in the broader scientific community. They talked about developments in the field of robotics, artificial intelligence, physics, biochemistry and environmental sciences. The president also visited the Department of Automatics, Biocybernetics, and Robotics, where we had the opportunity to showcase the ReconCycle project and the ReconCycle workcell in more detail. During the visit, we provided a demonstration of a simplified disassembly use case, illustrating the innovative technologies and processes employed in the project.

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ReconCycle Kickoff Meeting

Kickoff Meeting of Reconcycle in Ljubljana

ReconCycle is one of the four research and innovation actions that were selected for funding in H2020 call “ICT-09-2019-2020”, Robotics in Application Areas. The project’s kickoff meeting was held at Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from February 13th – 14th, 2020. At the meetings the partners were focusing on the establishment of the initial experimental environment and on the main research issues that need to be addressed in the project to implement the recycling cell prototype.