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Foxconn To Employ 1 Million Robots

Posted by Soulskill on from the we-will-teach-them-sorrow-and-pain dept.

hackingbear writes "Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in three years to cut rising labor expenses and improve efficiency. Foxconn, the world's largest maker of computer components, which assembles products for Apple, Sony and Nokia, employing 1 million (human) laborers in mainland China, is in the spotlight after a string of suicides of workers at its massive Chinese plants. As labor regulations tighten up in China, human laborers demanding wage rises become replaceable."

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  1. Robots problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What happens when the robots start committing suicide?

    1. Re:Robots problems by MichaelSmith · · Score: 3, Funny

      Same as my, er, Android phone. Schedule a reboot every five days.

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  2. Re:Engrish? by MichaelSmith · · Score: 3, Funny

    My wife replaced me with a simple mechanism involving an electric motor and an offset rotating mass. It doesn't even need a microcontroller.

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  3. Did I miss something? by glwtta · · Score: 1, Funny

    So companies "employ" robots now? I hope they pay them a fair wage.

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  4. Re:So Let Me Get This Straight... by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 3, Funny

    Three wars? You forget that US drones are also currently bombing Pakistan and more recently, Yemen. Or is it not a war when a drone does it?

    We're America so we group all those peripheral encounters in with the smallest non-peacful action currently taking place. We think of them as accessories (even though they usually turn out not to be very fashionable).