A welding robot contemplates its' station in life.

If you have a gadget at your disposal, odds are it was made by Foxconn.  Foxconn is the company that makes gadgets for Apple, HP, Sony, Nintendo, and pretty much every other manufacturer.  As Apple’s pet manufacturing company, Foxconn is responsible for the iPhone and a lot of other technological wonders.  They also have a problem finding enough qualified workers for their factories, so Foxconn has a solution:  replace 1 million human workers with robots.

Although technically the robots will be replacing some humans, Foxconn CEO Terry Gou has expressed a desire to “higher up the value chain, beyond basic manufacturing work,” which is great except for the fact that Foxconn’s employees have been known to leap from higher places when given half a chance to clear the anti-suicide nets.

Foxconn already has 10,000 robots, but they’re going to greatly add to that number in a bid to stay ahead of the competition and improve working conditions for the firm’s current human employees while maintaining the never-ending demand for smartphones.  The robot workers will be phased in over the next three years, no doubt to avoid more worker suicides at the death-plagued manufacturing company.

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