By Frank Tobe, Editor and Publisher, The Robot Report View from the exhibition floor at CIROS, July 2-5, Shanghai. The China International Robot Show CIROS was held July 2-5 in Shanghai. 30,000 people were expected to attend and 56 companies exhibited. Although most of the exhibitors were Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, German and other international robot…

Copied and cross-linked with permission from: The New Economy, November 17, 2011Foxconn, a big contractor for Apple and others, breaks ground for robot facilities. It plans to replace 500,000 workers with 1 million robots. Workers are seen inside a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in China’s southern Guangdong Province in this 2010 photo. After a spate…