The secrets of Apple's iPhone-destroying robot Liam

One of the things Apple unveiled during its iPhone SE event on Monday was a cute WALL-E-like robot that knows how to do just one thing: Fully disassemble old iPhones into their base components so they can be recycled. At the time, we thought the video Apple showed was pretty interesting, but it looks like Liam is more than an eco-friendly gimmick. This smartphone-disassembling machine was something so secret inside Apple that only a few engineers who were hired specifically to build it knew about it. Furthermore, it's a machine so unique that no other companies have it. DON'T MISS: 12 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now A few days before Apple's keynote, Mashable got an early access to Liam at a secret location close to Apple's headquarters in California.