Apple's new teardown robot rips apart iPhones in 18 secs

Robot builds an Ikea chair in 20 mins; 'Inspector Gadget' drone arm...

ZDNet Innovation Weekly April 20, 2018

iPhone terminator: Apple's Daisy teardown robot can rip your phone apart in 18 secs Apple has a new robot that can recover about 1kg of gold and 7.5kg of silver from every 100,000 old iPhones. READ FULL STORY RELATED • 'Inspector Gadget' arm makes drones more useful (and a little scary) • Sony, Carnegie Mellon form partnership to research cooking robots • These tattoos only become visible when detecting cancer-linked disease Robot builds an Ikea chair. Everyone goes nuts. READ FULL STORY Getting started with Alexa and smart home tech for $100 READ FULL STORY Forrester on DevOps: Iterate faster with automated DevOps toolchains and security White Papers from IBM Learn More Get 2 Months of VMware Cloud Foundation Free! Training from IBM Free Trial SD-WAN for UCaaS: Optimizing Bandwidth on Any Network eBooks from Vonage Find Out More More Innovation 1. Google AI can pick out a single speaker in a crowd 2. ​Microsoft Translator: Now AI works offline for Android and iOS 3. IBM: Our in-memory computing will cut cost of training AI 4. Ex-Google CEO warns: We need AI ground rules for Pentagon work Read more › Mobility 1. This is why Apple needs a cheaper iPhone 2. Apple appears to be readying new iPhone for launch 3. Motorola crams more features in Moto G6 and E5 phones for less 4. Who's hurt by the ZTE ban? US consumers and businesses Read more › Reliance on robots partially to blame for Model 3 production delays, says Elon Musk For companies rushing to automate, a cautionary tale from the most automation-heavy carmaker on the planet. READ FULL STORY More innovation coverage More robots? You got it

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