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. [caption id="attachment_64900" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Source: technabob.com[/caption] 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. As of now the robots are in their final stages of testing and would soon be ready for deployment. 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. “We will have more and more robots in our lives in the future,” he said. Read more in our articles including "A fleet of 10,000 Foxbots will aid in production of iPhone 6" and "Japan shows off android newscaster, is eerily clever".
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Jun 9, 2026Foxconn, 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. [caption id="attachment_64900" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Source: technabob.com[/caption] 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.
As of now the robots are in their final stages of testing and would soon be ready for deployment. 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. “We will have more and more robots in our lives in the future,” he said.
Our coverage of robots includes: "A fleet of 10,000 Foxbots will aid in production of iPhone 6"; "Japan shows off android newscaster, is eerily clever"; "iOS 27 Beta Is Out, But You'll Need to Join a Waitlist to Try the New Siri AI". Each article provides unique insights and information.