Because robots can’t get depressed over awful working conditions and commit suicide, you see. Also we don’t have a robot union yet, so Foxconn (the guys who manufacture the iPhone and iPad) won’t need to worry about the slowly increasing factory worker wages in Taiwan, which are driving overhead costs upwards throughout the fancy-technology-making-industry.

Foxconn chairman, Terry Gou, stated on Friday that the company will be deploying up to a million manufacturing robots over the next three years, up from about 10,000 robots this year. This should also improve conditions for the human workers, which would be nice given that there have been 18 attempted suicides by Foxconn employees in the past year, with 14 deaths. Less certain is what will happen to the workers being replaced by robots.

Please understand that when the robots do gain sentience, this headline will be used as evidence of Foxconn’s crimes against robot kind.

[PCWorld]
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