Foxconn will act on promises and replace some of its assembly line workers with robots, founder Terry Gou said at a company party Friday night. The company will move from 10,000 robots this year to 300,000 in 2012 and one million within three years. Many of these will be used to handle simple, repetitive tasks that are still being handled by human workers, such as certain kinds of assembly, spraying, and welding, the Xinhua News Agency understood.
