Foxconn factory installed 10,000 industrial robots

Foxconn has taken significant steps to reduce its dependence on employees. At one of the company's plants found 10,000 industrial robots. In the plan before the end of this year, in addition to mount the 20,000 machines. In the future, armed with Foxconn to get up a million robots that have already received the name "Foxbots". This is a very primitive and relatively inexpensive car - and can perform only simple manipulation, and their accuracy is not high enough to deal with assembling the iPhone. The cost of one such robot is 20 to 25 thousand dollars. Foxconn recently repeatedly brought to the center of various scandals involving its employees. Conducted an investigation of the mass suicides discharged penalties for 14-16-year-olds in the workplace, and not so long ago, in the factories was a series of these revolts against inhuman working conditions. At the same time, the production of the iPhone 5 are having difficulties because of the assembly system, which led to numerous cases of marriage, which are not only detected the mass acceptance of Apple, but also customers. How will the work of the company after the robotics is difficult to say. At the moment around the world at Foxconn employs more than 1.2 million people and some of them probably will be fired and replaced by "foksbotami."