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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Foxconn Replace Man with One Million Robots

The works will simply be replaced from the human hand to the robot. This is done Foxconn, the company that makes a number of devices for Apple iPhone and iPad.

Even Foxconn plans to replace human labor with one million robots in the next three years.

Xinhuanet news agency reported, robots will handle simple tasks that humans have been done as welding and assembling components. Foxconn currently has 10,000 robot that will rise to 300.00 next year and eventually become a million within the next three years.

"The use of robots intended to reduce expenses for postal labor and improve efficiency," says Foxconn's CEO, Terry Guo.

Foxconn is a large company in China. Companies that have a million of these workers into the spotlight recently due to a series of suicides that occurred in the factory. The case has forced Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sony, and other companies to investigate the business practices Foxconn. Not long ago, Foxconn factory in Chengdu exploded, killing two people and injuring 16 others.



Source: TRIBUNNEWS.COM

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