Foxconn slow to roll out its robot workforce

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Foxconn has begun rolling out its robotic workforce, although reaching its stated goal of one million robot workers by 2014 may have been overly optimistic. Since 2011, the company has only built and deployed approximately 10,000 robots in one of its factories, and will only deliver 1/10th of the 300,000 robots it had planned by the end of 2012. The company employs 1.2 million workers, 400,000 of which manufacture Apple products... Continue Reading Foxconn slow to roll out its robot workforce

Section: Robotics

Tags: Apple, Automation, Foxconn, Robots

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