Suicide-Plagued Foxconn to Swap People for Robots

Foxconn, the suicide-plagued maker of millions of Apple products in China, plans to use as many as one million robots on its assembly line within three years—compared to just 10,000 today, a Chinese report says. Increasing labor costs is a major driver behind the move, reports Reuters . “This…

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Suicide-Plagued Foxconn to Swap People for Robots

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