The company will change the iPhone and iPad working robots

Taiwanese company Foxconn for 3 years working on plans to replace its factory robots. The use of industrial robots will reduce labor costs and increase the yield of finished products.

It is known that the robots will perform simple and routine tasks, including assembly, painting and welding equipment. Now Foxconn, collecting smartphone iPhone, Tablet iPad, as well as products Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Nokia and Sony has already "working" 10 thousand cars. By next year this figure will increase to 300 thousand, and three years later - up to 1 million.

A total factory Foxconn employs 1.2 million people. Which of them will be replaced by robots, not specified? Hon Hai Precision Industry, which owns the trade brand name Foxconn, repeatedly accused of ill-treatment of workers and low wages. Because of intolerable working conditions in early 2010 at its plants was recorded at least 13 cases of suicide.

In May this year in an explosion at a factory Foxconn for the production of iPad 2 in southwestern China killed three people. The cause of the incident was the explosion of combustible dust in ventilation ducts.