With a price tag so premium, many are under the impression that the Apple products they buy are made from raw and high-quality materials worthy the price of a finished product. Apple even promised about putting away the idea of building its future products solely from recycled parts.
But with a robot under the company’s employment which was designed for one thing—that is, disassemble old iPhones—Apple may not be entirely living up to what it promised.
The name of the robot is Daisy and is an improvement to its predecessor named Liam. Like Liam, Daisy is tasked to salvage large chunks of unused iPhone devices for their materials and with the intent to recreate them as improved models.
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According to Apple, Daisy is a robot capable of extracting parts from as many as 9 different iPhone models and whose effort often result to the harvest of significant minerals. Typically, for every 100,000 old iPhones which Daisy dismantles, it recovers 1.9kg of aluminum, 770kg of cobalt, 710kg of copper, and 11kg of rare earth elements.
Currently, an advanced recovery robot like Daisy is only available in Austin, Texas. But with Apple making the priority in going full throttle about going “completely green,” we could expect more of Daisy in other parts of the United States and even across Europe in the future soon.
While the giant tech company may have failed in delivering its promise, the capability to recycle e-wastes and reuse their essences is an eco-friendly step in keeping a good business.