Foxconn, one of the biggest partners of Apple in manufacturing its devices, announces that it will slowly veer away from using manual labor and instead make use of robots or “Foxbots” as they call it to help in the assembly of the iPhone 6.
Foxconn CEO Terry Gou mentioned at a recent shareholder meeting that the robots cost about $25,000 to make, but will in turn produce an average of 30,000 devices per year. The initial rollout of these Foxbots is expected to reach 10,000, in which Apple will be the first company to try them out. As of now the robots are in their final stages of testing and would soon be ready for deployment.
This doesn’t mean that the next Apple devices will be made entirely by the Foxbots since the company just hired 100,000 additional workers last month to prepare for the high demand in production.
The move to have this much hands (both from humans and robots) working on the next iPhone is so that mishaps from before won’t happen again. Back when iPhone 5 was released there were reports of damaged phones right out of the box and it was believed that they were due to the rushed production. Apple seems to have learned its lesson and they aim to be prepared this time around.
Production of the iPhone 6 is expected to be in full blast starting next month in time for an earlier-than-expected September launch.
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Plot twist: After acquiring 10,000 robots, iphone 6 sales slumped down.
Not gonna happen. Not in a million years. IPhones are bound to be popular.
iPhone sales have already been plummeting for the past 2-3 years. Tao is obviously in denial. Basa-basa muna pag may time, Tao.
fu. Denial na kng denial. Tingnan na lang natin paglabas ng iphone 6. I am very sure it will be a huge hit.
ANDROID IS ROBOTS. THAT MEANS THAT THE GREAT ANDROID IS NOW MAKING THE IOSUCKS PHONE. THAT MEANS ANDROID > IOSUCKS, OR FOR YOU MERE NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS WITH NO BRAINS, IT MEANS ANDROID IS GREATER THAN IOSUCKS. WITHOUT THE ANDROID, THERE WILL NO EXIST OF THE IOSUCKS.
I pity this animal, Pipoy. Kunwari troll. Pero sa totoo lang, moron naman talaga. Kunwari trolling the grammar nazis here, pero sobrang halata naman that he has nothing between his ears. Ay, Pipoy, nagaksaya lang ng power ang Panginoon sayo. Your such a waste of matter. Napunta pa sana yan sa mga halaman. Go ahead and suck your android phone. Eh baka nga cherry mobile lang yan eh. Sa englishetz mong yan, malamang Android Cupcake pa yang OS ng phone mo.