Interesting update on the situation around Foxconn’s plans to deploy massive numbers of robots in their immense factories in China – the
ones that, among other, produce phones and computers for Apple.
Several details I wasn’t aware of:
- Foxconn is losing money, $US 316 mio. last year
- Foxcon build their own robots – they call them Foxbots.
They started constructing the robots with the help of MIT back in 2009. So far
they have only made 20.000, but the plans are to build a million.
- Unusually, there is currently a freeze in hiring at
Foxconn, or at least thay was the situation back in february, after the new
year holiday.
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