Foxconn to Build ''Robotic Kingdom'' in Taiwan

I actually thought they were building a themepark like legoland. I need my morning coffee now.

That would be terrifying.

Combine together and fight!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdGkkp1aq8

let's drink to the end of the world....not....so it looks like all the people will be replaced by robots.....this could be good since they don't really have to pay the robots, initial cost will be expensive but in the end they will make a profit....it really sucks but when it comes to electronics robots are better

So now we'll have Robots jumping over the balconies?

Suicidal robots can be reprogram or repair, human can't. Cost effective moves.

Skynet

Foxconn 2015:

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haha it would be realy funny if the robots get suicidal!
(old news, I read this a few days ago on a normal south african news site..)

Bender?

WOW did you enlarge the pic and see the people they look really unhappy. go figure huh..

I thought the humans employed there turned into robots after having worked there 6 months??

Oh, so instead of jumping, the robots will throw them over the balconies.

Great, I come in here with a robot suicide quip ready to go, and you guys have already gone down that road!

How much does it cost to build a robot, and how much do they pay a person per hour?

Short term , it doesn't make sense, but in 30 or so years you may actually recoup a saving.

Although if these hi tech robots found out they were making Apple products, they may very well jump off the roof.

Not really entirely true. We employ many robots where i work, not only do you need higher trained people to operate them, you also need a tech trained person that knows how to fix them when they break down.
Id say on average the robots fault out anywhere from 1 to 15 times in a shift. Simple things. And prob have to be worked on once a week or so on average. (usually programming adjustments, always changing)

Alot of it depends on how complex the operation its doing is also. But programming and the items it works with are never perfect, so they always run into things that dont line up correctly for the robot.

Also not to mention, robots dont pick up on defects like a human would. And most robots if something breaks (like a tool) and they dont have anything setup to check the tool. it will keep right on making bad parts till stopped. causing lots of scrap parts.

average robot about the size of a human at our facility costs around $120,000 USD. Then you also have costs for the programming, not sure on its cost but prob very expensive.

So figure a robot will prob pay for itself in 3 to 4 years. Not too bad.

People build robots, install robots, program robots, and repair robots. There will be plenty of jobs for people that are smarter than a robot. But SOME day, robots will be building robots, installing robots, programming robots, and repairing robots. When that day comes, then we can worry.

wouldnt a robot cost more than a laborer? I mean assuming a robot costs $3000 thats more than 10 years of a laborers pay (including his suicide check to his family)

who gets the raw materials? who builds the robots? how much will they get paid? ah now you see. what's the total cost for building the robot now?

it's not like they're ordering them from newegg, you know.

Now it all adds up...

The truth is that probably this has been an ongoing plan which was accidentally expossed back in the days to a simple employ. At the time they "got rid of the problem" he had told someone else and that someone else to another individual. Maybe there are already some of those robots lurking in there killing everyone thats sweaty enough to betray their fear of exposing them!

( I claim all rights to this scenario or Ill go all Apple on your sorry asses! )

You have no idea how a business operates.

First of all, an employee costs a business TWICE what that person's wages are. There are insurance premiums and taxes to be paid by the business on behalf of that employee EVEN IF THE EMPLOYEE HAS NO BENEFITS. There is unemployment insurance, workman's comp, and FICA taxes. If the employee has any benefits at all, then the costs are even higher. Pension programs, 401K contributions, vacation pay, holiday pay, sick leave, maternity leave, training, union dues, health insurance, and so forth.

If the employee makes $15 per hour the company is paying about $30/hour or more.

Robots don't get any benefits. Robots are property that depreciates over time. A business is allowed to use depreciation as a tax deduction. This means that robot the company bought for $100k doesn't really cost that much to the company.

The Born of Skynet, misstreated robots that take suicide will reach up to the boiling point!

Its because that's where they have to live.

Toms... you shouldnt really be reading Xinhua News, half the shit on that site is lies and government propaganda.

just don't put a hal 9000 unit in control of these robots!

So, will the employees at Foxconn have to build the robots that will replace them? Wouldn't that be fun? Will they licence the Cortex A9 for these robots, or go with Intel or AMD?

For the record - I am not serious.

I have a robot vagina

Indeed, most people seem to think that a robot is somehow 'perfect' and 'low maintenance' when reality is nothing close to that. They are great when they work because they can churn through material quickly and 24/7 if everything is prepped correctly, but if anything is off then everything falls apart until it is reset.
All that being said, they are getting better and more sophisticated, and if they work out then it will mean better jobs for those who work there, but probably less people working.

^ its the same people that come to you with a crashed harddrive and insinuate that you don't know what you doing when you tell them stuff is gone. They don't understand anything beyond face value and the final product.

well how about them apples.