Last year I told you that Foxconn plans to deploy 1 million robots in its own factories to produce iDevices those from Apple and the devices of the companies that contract it for assembly. Foxconn will replace a good part of the human workforce with these robots and the first 100 they started already to assemble iPhone 5 terminals in a Foxconn factory in Shenzhen. The implementation of these robots increased work efficiency by 140% at the moment, but they are not used in processes that involve performing precise maneuvers.
A robot of this kind costs a little over $16.000 and 20.000 such machines have already been placed in another Foxconn factory that does not produce iDevices for Apple. Foxconn will invest several billion dollars in implementing these robots in its factories, but the end result will be an improvement in the production times of the iDevices, a reduction in the number of production errors and perhaps a substantial reduction in the theft of components, before the products to reach the market.
