Robot executives paid close attention when Chia Day, a softly spoken senior vice-president at Foxconn, visited the Automatica trade show in Munich last week.
Mr Day has been given the task of fulfilling the Taiwanese contract manufacturer’s dramatic vision of building a 1m-strong robot army to transform the productivity of its labour-intensive electronics factories, which serve clients including Apple.
He is therefore an important potential customer for robot makers Fanuc and Yaskawa of Japan, Switzerland’s ABB and Germany’s Kuka, which aim to tap markets beyond the automotive sector – for decades the foundation of the industry.
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