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Foxconn wants one million new workers, must be robotic

  • Author: admin
  • Filed under: Robots
  • Date: Sep 17,2011

We saw this coming when we met FRIDA, and now it’s apparently happening.

According to Xinhuanet, Foxconn’s founder and chairman chose a workers’ party last Friday night to reveal plans for a surge in the company’s robot contingent.

There’ll be 300,000 robots in operation by next year and a swarm-like 1,000,000 within three years — versus just 10,000 today. The bots will be required to spray, weld and not kill themselves.

We can only imagine how this news went down at the party, but soon stuff like that will hardly matter.


Watch Nexus One get built, then beaten mercilessly

This might be the best entry yet in Google’s Nexus One video series. Today’s double feature is marked by the testing and manufacturing of the device, and while the all-white facilities and assembly lines can be interesting in their own right, we love nothing more than seeing just how Google and HTC stress test its labor of love.

Watch it dropped, slammed, bent, poked, and detonated — okay, maybe not detonated, and we unfortunately don’t get to see any phones crack, but it’s still good fun.

The big game’s not on yet, so give yourself a few minutes and hit up the two short videos after the break.

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