Tuurny deployed a proprietary robotic system designed to harvest high-quality RAM directly from domestic electronic waste. The company’s newly completed robotic cell, Nantul, merges advanced Vision AI with precision robotics to target, thermal-process, and safely extract up to 300 intact RAM ICs per cell, per hour.
"Our immediate focus is keeping consumer electronics manufacturers alive during this memory squeeze, and RAM is just the beginning," says Sina Ghashghaei, founder of Tuurny. "Because our robots see and understand the board layout dynamically, we can push an over-the-air update to immediately begin targeting and stockpiling specific components rich in critical minerals like copper coils, palladium-heavy RF shields, or specialized processors. We aren't just a recycling company; we are an agile, onshore strategic reserve."
Key takeaways:
· Tuurny’s physical AI systems are entirely component-agnostic. Because Tuurny’s extraction process is software-defined rather than relying on fixed mechanical tooling, Nantul can dynamically pivot to remove any component from the board, targeting whatever parts are most critical to the supply chain in real time.
· Tuurny’s mission is to permanently halt the export of America’s rare earth-rich e-waste by transforming depopulation from a historically unprofitable cost center into a scalable, software-driven profit engine.
· By automating a manual and uneconomical process, Tuurny has created a new sunrise market where depopulation costs collapse entirely. Now that the process is ultra-cheap, precise, and automated at scale, valuable components and critical minerals can be recovered onshore.
· Doing so dramatically reduces the friction of extracting usable materials from existing electronics while also decreasing reliance on resource-intensive mining operations. Together, this enables Tuurny to build a resilient circular supply of critical minerals.
