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Foxconn has ten fully-automated production lines, aims to totally automate entire factories

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<p>Romantic images of bringing iPhone production back to the USA to create jobs were given a further blow today when Apple’s main iPhone assembler <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/foxconn/" target="_blank">Foxconn[/url] announced that it has already deployed 40,000 robots on its production lines, and is working towards a goal of fully-automated factories.</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Foxconn has already replaced <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/05/25/foxconn-robots-replace-workers/" target="_blank">more than half its workforce[/url] with robots since the launch of the iPhone 6, and the company’s Automation Technology Development Committee general manager Dai Jia-peng said that this was just the start of a three-phase plan … </span></p>
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