{"id":161976,"date":"2025-10-01T10:18:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=161976"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:18:25","slug":"wyso-metal-recycling-manufacturing-and-ai-wright-state-receives-3m-grant-to-show-they-can-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/10\/01\/wyso-metal-recycling-manufacturing-and-ai-wright-state-receives-3m-grant-to-show-they-can-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"WYSO: Metal recycling, manufacturing and AI: Wright State receives $3M grant to show they can collide"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Two Wright State professors have received a big grant to investigate how AI can transform metal recycling and manufacturing. The university hopes to be a national leader in this developing concept.<\/p>\n

They call it \u201crecyclofacturing.\u201d Sean Banerjee and Natasha Banerjee were awarded nearly $3 million last month from the National Science Foundation for this idea. This is the second-largest NSF research grant that Wright State has ever received.<\/p>\n

The idea is to create a system for people to request specific parts from a dashboard of multiple recycling plants.<\/p>\n

If a plant has the raw material, a trained worker can fabricate the scrap metal into the needed shape and dimensions. The product design will be created by a trained AI model developed by the research team. Undergraduate and graduate students will assist them during the four-year grant period.<\/p>\n

Scrap metal can come from old household items such as refrigerators, washing machines and grill lids.<\/p>\n

\u201cTraditionally, what would happen is [the scrap metal] might get crushed at the recycling facility and perhaps sent overseas for further processing,\u201d said Natasha Banerjee, associate computer science professor.<\/p>\n

Wright State University will be the leading institution for the research, but they\u2019ll have the help of additional schools, including Santa Clara University, Chapman University and Clarkson University.<\/p>\n

The Banerjees are in the process of procuring equipment to kick off their research. According to Sean, they\u2019re in this project for the long-haul.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur vision is we come up with the blueprint at the end of the four years, we make it public. [If] anyone wants to pick it up, they can pick it and they can realize this, whether this is [in] Ohio\u2026at the U.S. scale, or beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hope is that this network can revitalize small manufacturers in the U.S., Sean said.<\/p>\n

Listen to the full story at wyso.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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