YouTuber infiltrates Apple's robot 'Daisy' that automatically disassembles 200 iPhones per hour
In consideration of the environment, Apple takes out parts and resources that are no longer used from products such as iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks and reuses them. At Apple's Material Recovery Lab, a robot '
Apple Made a Robot --Meet Daisy --YouTube
Dietschy is at Apple's Material Recycling Laboratory in California. Behind is a device for crushing and sorting used iPhones.
Many materials such as minerals such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, gold, iron, tantalum, tungsten, zinc, and rare earth, glass, paper, and plastic are used for iPhone.
In order to reuse such materials, this device crushes used iPhones. Shred your iPhone ...
We will take many steps to make the parts finer and further sort them.
Then, it can be divided into metal parts, plastic parts, and glass parts like this. However, since the types of metals are not sorted, the reuse rate will decrease just by crushing them.
So, in 2018, Apple announced Daisy, a robot for disassembling the iPhone.
Originally, a large number of iPhones can be put in at once, but Dietschy puts in one iPhone from the drawer.
Daisy's robot hand picks up the iPhone that was put in.
If you thrust it into the device next to it, the display will be instantly peeled off from the iPhone body.
Furthermore, when a force is applied to the main body with a robot hand ...
The main body and display are easily separated. You can see the battery pack on the side of the main body that the robot hand is holding.
The battery pack is removed from the main unit with the display removed at ultra-low temperature.
Lithium can be recovered from the removed battery pack.
Furthermore, the case part of the main body from which the board has been removed can be drilled.
It looks like the screws that fasten the parts that make up the board are being removed.
Remove all the screws and then remove the parts from the board.
In a conventional crusher, all the parts are messed up together, but with Daisy, each part can be reused and crushed, so it is much more efficient than before. You can aim for good recycling.
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