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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 is trying to change the way electronics are recycled with a robot that disassembles its iPhone so that minerals can be recovered and reused, while acknowledging rising global demand for ...

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 ...