Robots to replace human labour in China
January 16th, 2012 - 7:49 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Beijing, Jan 16 (IANS) Technology firm Foxconn will employ one million robots to replace human labour in China in the next three years.
“Robots are more accurate and adaptive than workers,” China Daily reported Monday quoting Xie Gang, professor at the School of Information Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology.
Foxconn is one of the largest corporations in the electronic assembling industry in China.
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