Which is to say, they apparently have not done anything yet but are rather stating their intention.
Which is to say, they apparently have not done anything yet but are rather stating their intention.
"There are 10 lights-out (fully automated) production lines at some factories, including table one in Chengdu, AIO (all-in-one) PC and LCD monitor lines at a factory in Chongqing, and a CNC line in Zhengzhou. ... Foxconn has deployed more than 40,000 Foxbots, industrial robots developed and produced in house, at factories in China."
The Chengdu plant makes iPads.[1] Foxconn refers to "table one" because they usually don't name their contract manufacturing clients.
Apple used to have robotic assembly lines in Fremont, CA.[2] Then they switched to cheap outsourced manual labor.
[1] http://micgadget.com/12674/the-inside-story-of-the-new-foxco... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk306ZkNOuc