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Foxconn to deploy 1,000,000 robots by 2014
… Foxconn is planning to up their factory robot count to 300,000 by 2012 and 1 million by 2014.
… A Taiwanese contract manufacturer with factories in Taiwan, China, Vietnam and Indonesia, Foxconn employs 1.2 million workers, 400,000 of which work on iPad, iPhone and other Apple products.
… Read story in Christian Science Monitor.
… Combining low-cost skilled labor with new-tech robotics will increase Foxconn’s productivity and efficiency and insure that offshoring is economically the best choice for global electronics manufacturers.
… What does it mean to the global robotics industry? And to America? Read more….
Frank Tobe
is the owner and publisher of The Robot Report, and is also a panel member for Robohub's Robotics by Invitation series.
Frank Tobe
is the owner and publisher of The Robot Report, and is also a panel member for Robohub's Robotics by Invitation series.
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