Besides designing, manufacturing, and selling iPhones, Apple is now taking them apart also! Apple is making a major push to be more green and that means recycling as much as possible the components that go into their phones and other products.
One way that they are trying to reach that lofty recycling goal is by developing highly automated robots to facilitate the disassembly. The first one on the scene is Liam. Liam is truly an amazing beast!
Liam is a 29-armed robotic creation that can totally disassemble an iPhone 6 in 11 seconds!! Now that is fast! That gives about 350 phones disassembled each hour, or 1.2 Million phones per year (assuming no lunch breaks and no maintenance!!). You need a few “Liams” to put a dent into the iPhone supply out there.
A great article on this very impressive robotic technology was recently published on Mashable . Mashable has published some photos and videos (though not at real time!).