IFAC PapersOnLine 51-30 (2018) 216–219 ScienceDirect Available online at www.sciencedirect.com 2405-8963 © 2018, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Peer review under responsibility of International Federation of Automatic Control. 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.11.289 © 2018, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Recycle, Robot, Mechatronics, Scrap, Reuse Materials, Control, Open-Source, Education. 1. INTRODUCTION Recycling and disposal of e-waste may involve significant risk to health of workers and communities The reuse of materials is mainly limited in the separation of valuable materials from mechanical and electronics scrap, but there is another opportunity in using the mechatronics scrap, to build robots. The robots build from scrap are limited to its function and ability but they are cost effective and building them can be very educational for students in mechatronics field, e.g. a robot can be built from the parts of a photocopy machine, from the old computers, almost anything that has moving mechanical parts and control boards, motor drives, etc. can be a used to build a scrap robot. In this work we will discuss about best practices of building robots by using scrap materials and also cheap electronics such as Arduino UNO, and other free software platforms. Today, electrical and electronic waste (hereafter referred to as e-waste) is the fastest growing waste stream (about 4 per cent growth a year). About 40 million tonnes of e-waste is created each year. (M.Schluep, 2009) E-scrap comprises electrical appliances, in general, large household appliances represent the largest proportion (about 50 per cent) of e-scrap, followed by information and communications technology equipment (about 30 per cent) and consumer electronics (about 10 per cent). The urgency of the problem is evident: worldwide, in the decade between 1994 and 2003, about 500 million personal computers containing approximately 718,000 tonnes of lead, 1,363 tonnes of cadmium and 287 tonnes of mercury, reached their end-of-life. (Smith T. Sonnenfeld, 2006) Reuse of e-scrap, to build robots, have many benefits as they are describe in this paper are: cost effective, functional for different universal needs, educational. This way we are creating a new model of how we can start from individual levels to participate on creating some new strategies on treating of e-scrap. In this paper we are continuing IFAC tradition on Cost Oriented Automation and End of Life Management by one of robots from robot scrap family which in this case was used for begging. 2. INTRODUCTION OF BEGGAR ROBOT Robots can help in different areas such as:  Robots can help recycling resources. e.g. through their ability to sense the type of plastic using spectroscopic methods, which humans are not capable of.  Robots can help reduce waste during industrial production, agricultural production and elsewhere in the food chain. Abstract: The reuse of materials is mainly limited in the separation of valuable materials from mechanical and electronics scrap, but there is another opportunity in using the mechatronics scrap, to build robots, the robots build from scrap are limited to its function and ability but they are cost effective and building them can be very educational for students in mechatronics field. One of the robot family built for University needs is Beggar Robot. Begging is a practice of asking a favor with no return back, favors can be monetary but also gifts, food etc. The idea behind beggar robot comes from a Slovenian artist Sašo Sedlaček, who build some of these robots in different countries but the technical solution and the building of this particular robot was done by us. The robot was built from old computer materials such as the computer cases to build the body, CD rom to build the hands, and old monitor to replace the face, and cheap electronics and open source control boards. Based on fact that building robots with almost zero cost we can conclude will provide a very good learning experience and also serve as a gateway to get into building robotics from e-scrap. * TU Vienna, Institute for Mechanics and Mechatronic, IHRT, Favoritensh. 9, A-1040 Wien (Tel:00383 44 771131; e-mail: ines.bula@ubt-uni.net). ** TU Vienna, Institute for Mechanics and Mechatronic, IHRT, Favoritensh. 9, A-1040 Wien (e-mail: valmir.hoxha@ubt-uni.net) ** TU Vienna, Institute for Mechanics and Mechatronic, IHRT, Favoritensh. 9, A-1040 Wien (e-mail: ehajrizi@ubt-uni.net) Ines Bula* ,Valmir Hoxha**, Edmond Hajrizi*** Robot from Mechatronics Scrap –Beggar Robot