{"id":33153,"date":"2017-01-04T11:50:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T19:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/apple-manufacturer-foxconn-to-fully-replace-humans-with-robots"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:26:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:26:18","slug":"apple-manufacturer-foxconn-to-fully-replace-humans-with-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/apple-manufacturer-foxconn-to-fully-replace-humans-with-robots","title":{"rendered":"Apple Manufacturer Foxconn to Fully Replace Humans With Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-manufacturer-foxconn-to-fully-replace-humans-with-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Taiwanese company that manufactures Apple\u2019s iPhone has announced a three-part plan to fully automate its factories, with hopes to achieve 30% automation by 2020.<\/li>\n<li>The move could put as many as a million people out of work, another example of automation\u2019s major implications for the global workforce.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxconn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foxconn Electronics<\/a>, the Taiwanese manufacturing company behind some of the biggest electronic brands\u2019 devices, including Apple\u2019s iPhone, has announced that it will ramp up automation processes at its Chinese factories. The goal is to eventually achieve full automation.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20161229PD206.html\">Digitimes<\/a>, General Manager Dai Jia-peng of Foxconn\u2019s Automation Technology Development Committee explains that the process will unfold in three phases.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/apple-manufacturer-foxconn-to-fully-replace-humans-with-robots\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/apple-manufacturer-foxconn-to-fully-rep...th-robots\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief The Taiwanese company that manufactures Apple\u2019s iPhone has announced a three-part plan to fully automate its factories, with hopes to achieve 30% automation by 2020. The move could put as many as a million people out of work, another example of automation\u2019s major implications for the global workforce. Foxconn Electronics, the Taiwanese manufacturing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59272,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153\/revisions\/59272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}