Last week, TechCrunch paid a visit to Apple's Austin, Texas, manufacturing facilities. Since 2013, the company has built its Mac Pro desktop about 20 minutes north of downtown. The 400,000-square-foot ...

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- It took Apple less than a decade to sell a billion iPhones, but where do those devices land at the end of their life? Some of them wind up with Daisy, the second-generation ...

March 21 (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Monday unveiled a robotic system called Liam to take apart junked iPhones and recover valuable materials that can be recycled, such as silver and tungsten. Sign up ...

Apple Inc. (AAPL) said it is expanding its recycling programs, quadrupling the number of locations U.S. customers can send their iPhones to be disassembled by the company’s recycling robot, which it ...

It is not half as cute as Wall-E, but it seems good at recycling stuff nonetheless. Designing for recycling is important work. Combine this with Deep Mind's work on robotic arms learning to ...

Apple’s disassembly robot Daisy separates critical materials, like gold, copper, lithium batteries, and rare-earth elements, from used devices to be recycled. In June 2021, a heat dome pulverized my ...

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Apple has continually updated that figure in the 7.5 years since Daisy arrived. The robot now handles 29 different models, up from 18 a year and a half ago. The stark difference in cycle times between ...