Apple has been investigating the potential of robotics to enable its products to move independently. This ambitious project began around…
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Apple works to build better recycling robots
Apple is working to transform how electronics are recycled with a robot named “Daisy” that disassembles iPhone so that rare earth and…
Designed by Apple, built by robots
Designed in California, Made by Robots…
Children ‘at risk of robot influence,’ research study suggests
Forget peer pressure, future generations are more likely to be influenced by robots…
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: Robots won’t soon take over most jobs
Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak on Monday dismissed the notion that robots…
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…
Bill Gates wants to tax ‘job-killing’ robots
This is the dumbest idea since Messrs. Smoot and Hawley rampaged through the U.S. Capitol in 1930…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Yet another reason to love Apple
I contacted Apple via the Apple Feedback website and asked…
Why Foxconn’s iPhone robots could create American jobs
These Foxconn factories won’t be like the auto plants of the 1950s…
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…
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…
Robots made Apple switch to ‘Made in the U.S.A.’ Macs
Apple switching some of its products to being manufactured in the USA…
Apple’s revolutionary move into robotic manufacturing or something
Apple is about to become one of the world’s biggest buyers of industrial robots…
