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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…
10,000 robots to help assemble Apple’s iPhone 6; robots expected to impact low-skilled workers worldwide
Foxconn parent company Hon Hai is set to deploy an army of 10,000…
Foxconn to deploy ‘Foxbot’ robots for iPhone assembly
Each robot will be able to assemble an average of 30,000 iPhones…
Robots, not people, led Apple to make new Mac Pro in the U.S.A.
In October, when Apple announced its redesigned Mac Pro…
Apple dives deeper into designing and inventing robots, other manufacturing tech
Apple is putting a record $10.5 billion to work in new technology…
Apple iPhone and iPad assembler Foxconn said to plan Pennsylvania investment
Foxconn Technology Group, the Taipei-based assembler of Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad…
Anki, blessed by Apple, takes Artificial Intelligence and robotics to consumers
Anki, which was handpicked for a coveted slot…
Tim Cook: ‘Made in the U.S.A.’ Mac will utilize ‘many’ US-made components
Cook confirmed that the computer set to roll off Apple’s first US-based production line in nearly 20 years…
Whatever happened to Foxconn’s one million iPhone-assembling robots?
Nowadays, young workers are picky about their workplaces…
Apple suppliers Hon Hai, TSMC to add 5,000 jobs each
TSMC, the world’s top contract chip maker and Apple Inc supplier Hon Hai…
Robots made Apple switch to ‘Made in the U.S.A.’ Macs
Apple switching some of its products to being manufactured in the USA…
Foxconn Labor disputes said to disrupt iPhone production for 2nd time
Foxconn Technology Group, the assembler of Apple Inc. iPhones…
How NASA landed a Mac on Mars using MacBook Pros
Now that Apple has successfully landed on Mars, I think it’s time the company…
Apple’s revolutionary move into robotic manufacturing or something
Apple is about to become one of the world’s biggest buyers of industrial robots…
Apple CEO Tim Cook wants to make more products in U.S.A.
Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook said he would like to see more of the company’s…
