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Apple to invest $1 billion in India, plans to begin export of ‘Made in India’ iPhones across the world
As Apple plans to begin exporting ‘Made in India’ iPhones across the world, the California-based company is set invest some $1 billion in India…
Inside the most ambitious push yet to make iPhones outside China
Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., opened its first India factory four years ago. It now operates two assembly plants, with plans to expand those and open two more…
Designed by Apple, built by robots
Designed in California, Made by Robots…
New Apple patents reveal work on next-gen LiDAR using VCSELs for 3D sensing systems
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to improving…
Now would be the time for Apple to buy Tesla, and kick Elon Musk out of the driver’s seat
Elon Musk has put an end to his idea to take Tesla private, but still has a tough road ahead…
Apple + Tesla is a fairy tale with a twist
Apple and Tesla are single product visionaries. Single product visionaries create world-class consumer products…
Could Apple make a play for Tesla?
Once every decade, there’s a seismic shift in technology…
President Trump may not spare Apple’s iPhone from trade war
The phrase on the back of iPhones — ‘Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China’ — highlights a key reason…
iPhone assembler Foxconn’s billionaire CEO Terry Gou chafes at China’s ‘unreasonable’ overtime caps
The billionaire chief of Foxconn Technology Group, Apple Inc.’s main iPhone assembler…
Robots will eradicate teen jobs
The automation revolution is here and millions of human workers could be replaced by machines…
Designed in California. Assembled in China. How Apple’s iPhone skews U.S. trade deficit
U.S. President Donald Trump often tweets from his iPhone about pressuring China to address its $375 billion trade surplus…
Stephen Hawking: A.I. could be ‘worst event in the history of our civilization’
The emergence of artificial intelligence could be the ‘worst event in the history of our civilization’…
Woz calls Steve Jobs ‘Trumpish,’ says we shouldn’t worry about robots taking over
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s wide-ranging discussion Tuesday night at Carnegie Music Hall…
Elon Musk: Robot software will make Tesla worth as much as Apple
Elon Musk thinks his robot software can make Tesla Inc. worth as much as Apple Inc…
The depiction of robots in popular entertainment has destroyed our objectivity
Of all the futuristic technologies that seem closer to becoming mainstream each day, robotics…
Apple CEO Tim Cook defends globalization, walks tightrope on privacy in rare public speech in China
Apple Inc.’s Chief Executive Tim Cook defended globalization in a rare public speech in China…
President Trump’s vision of massive U.S. Apple iPhone assembly hinges on robotics
President Trump has visions of a massive Apple factory opening in the U.S. to churn out the latest iPhone…
Pegatron CEO: If President Trump institutes ‘Made in America’, we can build iPhones in U.S. – as long as Apple absorbs the costs
Pegatron Corp., one of the two Taiwanese companies that assemble iPhones and iPads for Apple Inc…
Under pressure from President Trump, Apple CEO stresses commitment to U.S.; says company spent $50 billion last year with U.S. suppliers
Apple spent roughly $50 billion last year at U.S.-based suppliers, Chief Executive Tim Cook said..
Advantech boss: China will suffer if President Trump makes good on vow to make Apple iPhones in America
The Chinese economy could be hit hard if U.S. President Donald Trump makes good on his vow…
Chinese factory replaces 90% of human workers with robots; production rises by 250%, defects drop by 80%
After a factory in Dongguan, China, replaced most of its workers with robots, it witnessed a spectacular rise in productivity…
Can President Trump bring Apple iPhone factories back to America?
As President Donald Trump pushes U.S. companies to make more products in the U.S…
Foxconn has 10 lights-out production lines, aims to fully automate entire factories
Foxconn Electronics is automating production at its factories in China in three phases…
California EPA settles with Apple on hazardous waste claims
The California Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday said Apple Inc agreed to pay $450,000…
Apple iPhone production in the U.S.is actually straightforward and not expensive
There is a misconception that the reason most electronic devices are manufactured in China is because of low labor costs…
President-elect Trump tells Apple CEO Tim Cook that he’d like to see Apple make products in the U.S.
It’s a big thing, we’ll make the robots too. Right now we don’t make the robots. We don’t make anything. But we’re going to…
Could President Trump be the catalyst for an all-American iPhone?
On the back of every iPhone are engraved the words…
Apple could make iPhones in the U.S.A. under President Trump, sources say
Apple’s iPhones might one day soon carry “Made in America” labels…
President Trump’s Made-in-America hurdle: Asia
When Jabil Circuit Inc., the world’s third-largest contract manufacturer by revenue, needed to quickly ramp up production…
Apple assembler Foxconn now has 40,000 ‘Foxbot’ robots working at factories in China
The Foxconn Group has installed 40,000 robots for handling manufacturing jobs at a number of its plants in China…
The All-American iPhone: Presidential candidates say Apple should make phones in the U.S.
Donald Trump says that if he becomes president…
What is Apple actually doing besides building that ridiculously expensive new headquarters?
The highest-profile new thing Apple is working on seems to be its own headquarters, a massive cylindrical campus…
Apple supplier Foxconn replaces 60,000 factory workers with robots
Thirty-five Taiwanese companies, including Apple’s supplier Foxconn, spent a total of 4 billion yuan…
Apple hires Nest’s former head of technology
Apple has hired famed robotics expert Yoky Matsuoka, one of the co-founders of Google’s X lab and former head of technology at Nest…
Apple unveils Liam recycling robot that takes apart iPhones
Apple Inc on Monday unveiled a robotic system called Liam to take apart junked iPhones and recover valuable materials…
Woz and over 1,000 other AI experts: Ban weaponized robots
Artificial Intelligence technology has reached a point where the deployment of such systems is feasible within years…
Why Apple is developing artificial intelligence
Apple will seek to apply this intelligence in other fields, such as self-healing machines, robotics and artificial intelligence…
Apple’s Coherent Navigation acquisition a big boost to Apple Maps
Coherent Navigation was founded in 2008 by a group engineers from Stanford and Cornell…
Protesters stage anti-artificial intelligence rally at SXSW
I say robot, you say no-bot!
Foxconn robots better, but still not precise enough to assemble Apple iPhones
Although Foxbots have been used in the company’s production line ever since June…
Foxconn CEO disappointed with current-gen iPhone-assembling robots; next-gen ‘Foxbots’ in the works
Foxconn – who is responsible for assembling the new iPhones – is failing to meet the high demand…
