Foxconn has been planning to buy 1 million robots to replace human workers and it looks like that change, albeit gradual, is about to start.
The company is allegedly paying $25,000 per robot – about three times
a worker’s average salary – and they will replace humans in (Iphone) assembly
tasks. The plans have been in place for a while – I spoke to Foxconn reps about this a year ago
– and it makes perfect sense. Humans are messy, they want more money,
and having a half-a-million of them in one factory is a recipe for
unrest. But what happens after the halls are clear of careful young men
and women and instead full of whirring robots? What happens to China’s
“burgeoning” economy?
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/13/foxconn-allegedly-replacing-human-workers-with-robots/
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