Aug 052011
 


Manufacturing being localized by 3D printing technology has been mentioned here before – the allusion being that the trend taken to a large enough scale could seriously impact China’s hold on the cheap-stuff-making market.  BUT, it appears that FOXCONN plans to just go ahead and push that forward on their own with… ROBOTS!

Are low-wage Chinese iPhone makers about to become no-wage Chinese iPhone makers?

[VIA XINHUA]

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