Industrial robot, a good partner in work

Since ancient times, literary works have been full of praise for working people, and works reflecting the great sentiments of migrant workers have often appeared in the Spring Festival Gala programs. But most people still want to work hard to remove the identity of workers, and in turn to praise them, and this theory also applies to assembly line workers and industrial robots. It is said that within Foxconn, company executives usually require employees to treat robots as partners, brothers and lovers, and then let them work 24 hours a day to do boring, heavy and dangerous manual work for them. The author can't help asking: Do you treat brothers like this?

All jokes are jokes, but when it comes to industrial robots, Foxconn and Gou Taiming's plan of "one million robots" cannot be avoided. Although three years have passed and millions of robots have not yet appeared, intelligent and automated production lines have taken shape, constantly meeting Apple's demanding shipping and quality requirements.

In fact, industrial robots should be more accurately called "mechanical arms". The common robots in Foxconn's workshops are the shapes of an arm and a leg. The actions they can complete also focus on simple, repeated transportation, film sticking and other relatively small assembly with relatively low difficulty coefficient. But it is such mechanical arms that can transform workers from monotonous Freed from routine work, let them engage in more creative, value-added and dignified work. Maybe we don't have to be too critical of President Gou Taiming's "Great Leap Forward" speech. After all, this plan has its own historical background and abnormal factors. In addition, with regard to the development level of existing industrial robots, we can't fully cope with the work in Foxconn's workshops, or even most of the work. as everyone knows, The iPhone 6 is a phone that is difficult to assemble all over the world, more than 10 times harder than the BlackBerry. The camera assembly, flexible cable connection, screw tightening and other assembly actions still rely on the hands of young women workers. This is why with the growth of iPhone 6 orders, human recruitment will always become a problem for Foxconn. What's more, they will help the government to provide jobs for these low educated people, If they are too aggressive and lose their jobs, I don't think 10 more Dongguan can accommodate them.

With the development of artificial intelligence, more capable robots may appear in the near future. They can cope with the work of 1.2 million people, but they can not appease the hearts of 1.2 million people. In fact, as a giant enterprise, Foxconn needs to consider far more than iPhone orders!