Foxconn Wants to Build “Intelligent Robotics Kingdom” to Replace Human Workers with Robots

November 7th, 2011

I love how they mention that this facility will create jobs! Yeah, 2000 jobs for people who are tasked with figuring out how to eliminate millions of other people’s jobs.

This is definitely one for your Arbeit Macht Frei file folder.

Via: Cnet:

iPhone maker Foxconn aims to manufacture its own robots and automation equipment at a new production and R&D facility at the Central Taiwan Science Park to replace some of its human laborers.

Chairman Terry Gou has signed a letter of intent with Taichung Mayor Jason Hu outlining the company’s plan to build an “intelligent robotics kingdom” in the park over the next few years, according to the Focus Taiwan news agency.

The robotics and automation facilities may generate some $4 billion in production value in the next three to five years and create about 2,000 jobs, Gou was quoted as saying.

Gou also attended a ground-breaking ceremony for a robot research facility and inaugurated a plant for automation equipment maker Foxnum Technology, part of the Foxconn group.

Earlier this year, Gou said Foxconn wants to replace some human workers with more than 1 million robots to fight surging labor costs. They will perform tasks such as spraying, welding, and assembly.

The price of labor has also led Japanese and European robot makers such as Yaskawa Electric to expand their activities in China, where industrial robots are spreading very quickly. The question is which robot makers will win the biggest market share.

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2 Responses to “Foxconn Wants to Build “Intelligent Robotics Kingdom” to Replace Human Workers with Robots”

  1. Crates says:
    November 7, 2011 at 7:07 am

    Maybe it is ultimataly a good thing for mechanical labor to be porformed by, well, mechanical labor.

    I have done my share of mechanical labor, and I can tell you this – the machines are welcome to it.

  2. tochigi says:
    November 7, 2011 at 2:46 pm

    is it just my imagination, or is the China Endgame going into overdrive about now? china and the US—-i give them both 2 years, not much more.

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