Foxconn To Employ 1 Million Robots 372
hackingbear writes "Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in three years to cut rising labor expenses and improve efficiency. Foxconn, the world's largest maker of computer components, which assembles products for Apple, Sony and Nokia, employing 1 million (human) laborers in mainland China, is in the spotlight after a string of suicides of workers at its massive Chinese plants. As labor regulations tighten up in China, human laborers demanding wage rises become replaceable."
Robots problems (Score:2, Funny)
What happens when the robots start committing suicide?
Re:Robots problems (Score:4, Funny)
Same as my, er, Android phone. Schedule a reboot every five days.
Re:Engrish? (Score:4, Funny)
My wife replaced me with a simple mechanism involving an electric motor and an offset rotating mass. It doesn't even need a microcontroller.
Did I miss something? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So Let Me Get This Straight... (Score:4, Funny)
Three wars? You forget that US drones are also currently bombing Pakistan and more recently, Yemen. Or is it not a war when a drone does it?
We're America so we group all those peripheral encounters in with the smallest non-peacful action currently taking place. We think of them as accessories (even though they usually turn out not to be very fashionable).