robots to replace human labor in china

cavarka9 · #1 by **cavarka9** » Jan 16, 2012 6:12 pm

BEIJING: Technology firm Foxconn will employ one million robots to replace human labour in China in the next three years.

"Robots are more accurate and adaptive than workers," China Daily reported Monday quoting Xie Gang, professor at the School of Information Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology.

Foxconn is one of the largest corporations in the electronic assembling industry in China.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home ... 515364.cms

I'm With Stupid · #2 by **I'm With Stupid** » Jan 16, 2012 6:43 pm

I thought Chinese workers were robots as far as Foxconn is concerned?

JoeB · #3 by **JoeB** » Jan 16, 2012 9:08 pm

Wow. That must be the shortest article I've ever read.

CdesignProponentsist · #4 by **CdesignProponentsist** » Jan 16, 2012 9:12 pm

I'm With Stupid wrote:I thought Chinese workers were robots as far as Foxconn is concerned?

Yes. This is an upgrade.

Joe09 · #5 by **Joe09** » Jan 16, 2012 11:29 pm

only because robots dont commit suicide when treated to harsh conditions

cavarka9 · #6 by **cavarka9** » Jan 17, 2012 1:45 am

JoeB wrote:Wow. That must be the shortest article I've ever read.

news from china comes out in snippets.

but you can say that twice. I posted here so that others might get any news similar to this, what kind of robots are we talking about, I dont think they are humanoid, not enough cheap technology yet or else they would replace the army first before labor.

MrFungus420 · #7 by **MrFungus420** » Jan 18, 2012 5:54 am

Hmmm...

Using robots for mass assembly of interchangeable parts...why does the phrase "automated assembly line" come to mind?

Why is this news in any way?

lordshipmayhem · #8 by **lordshipmayhem** » Jan 18, 2012 2:04 pm

Joe09 wrote:only because robots dont commit suicide when treated to harsh conditions

No, of course not.