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Liam – An Innovation Story

Apple · demo · Watch on YouTube

RoboticsRepair, teardowns & right to repairEnvironment, agriculture & food systems

What it is

A short Apple promotional video about Liam, a robot that disassembles old iPhones so their materials can be recovered. It frames the robot as part of Apple's product life cycle and recycling story.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited in repair and recycling threads as Apple's showcase of its iPhone disassembly robot, and sometimes mocked as marketing for what is really shredding.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “Very cool!”

    Liam robot disassembling iPhones for recycling

    jxramos, 2017-09 · Recommendation · in “A “right to repair” movement tools up”

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Topics: apple, liam, recycling, right to repair, robotics

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