It was clear that time was the only thing that had to pass for one of the world's largest assemblers of technological products to implement thousands of robots in its factories that would do the work of, attentive to the number, more than 50.000 people. We would be facing the largest deployment of robotics experienced so far and it is that already before begin the assembly of the iPhone 6 the CEO of Foxconn already had in mind to take the step we are talking about.
That step is already going to become a reality and the Foxconn factory, an assembly factory that has always been involved in suicide scandals and extreme working conditions that Apple itself has had to control, already has prepared thousands of robots that will begin to do the work of more than half of the "human" workforce.
With the arrival of so many robots, what is being tried, according to the company's top positions, is not only the specialization of work as well as the increase in production speed, but what is sought is that the workers who remain in the factory work in a more comfortable way and with less risk.
Many are the people of today who see this step as something disastrous that will leave thousands of workers "unemployed" in a very short time, but we have to be prepared for it and it is that everything indicates that artificial intelligence will come treading strong in the next decade. According to the co-founder of Intel, Gordon E. Moore, the computing capacity of the microprocessors doubles every two years, being able to reach the same level as the human brain in a time horizon of about 10 years if everything continues as before. Is about Moore's Law, announced by the same on April 19, 1965.
It is clear that what every company wants are profits and productivity and Foxconn not far behind so we'll see how events unfold in its assembly plants when they stop working for it a total of 60.000 workers leaving only 50.000 on the staff.
