Each week, somewhere in the world, a recycling facility burns — not from carelessness, but from the quiet danger of lithium-ion batteries hidden within the ordinary chaos of discarded things. Australian startup Oscorp Energy, founded in 2024, has built AI-powered robotic sorters designed to find these hidden hazards before they ignite, retrofitting intelligence into the existing infrastructure of an industry that has long treated preventable disaster as routine cost. Their work sits at the intersection of machine learning, worker safety, and the uncomfortable truth that modern waste streams ha
Australian AI startup targets recycling facility fires with autonomous battery detection
Worker safety improved through automation of hazardous manual waste sorting tasks, reducing exposure to dangerous materials and contaminated environments.