In June 2011, Foxconn CEO Terry Gou announced plans to deploy one million robots across factory assembly lines, as part of a company-wide effort to adopt more automated manufacturing processes.
But the major point about the article is that robots is now getting so cheap that soon enough just about all assembly and factory jobs are going to be done by such robots.
And certain tasks, such as assembling components, remain too fiddly for robots to do well, which is why assembly is often subcontracted to low-wage countries.