Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More Robots

jfruh writes: Foxconn, which supplies much of Apple's manufacturing muscle and has been criticized for various labor sins, is now moving to hire employees who won't complain because they're robots. The company expects 70 percent of its assembly line work to be robot-driven within three years.

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Re:Foxconn is so much more than Apple

[phantomfive]

so why is Foxconn always seen as some evil company doing Apple's bidding?

Mr. Tycho Brahe observes: We must, as conscious beings, observe when we are told things that are strategically lathed not to inform us but to make us fight with one another.