Foxconn to deploy 1,000,000 robots by 2014

By Frank Tobe | August 28, 2011

Foxconn is planning to up their factory robot count to 300,000 by 2012 and 1 million by 2014.

A Taiwanese contract manufacturer with factories in Taiwan, China, Vietnam and Indonesia, Foxconn employs 1.2 million workers, 400,000 of which work on iPad, iPhone and other Apple products.

Read story in Christian Science Monitor.

Combining low-cost skilled labor with new-tech robotics will increase Foxconn’s productivity and efficiency and insure that offshoring is economically the best choice for global electronics manufacturers.

What does it mean to the global robotics industry? And to America? Read more

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About The Author

Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.