The expansion incorporates a fully-automated assembly line for air handling units and four production lines for ductless air-conditioning and heating systems.
Investing in robots can be worthwhile for mass manufacturers like carmakers, who remain the biggest users of such machines, but even in highly automated car factories people still do most of the final assembly.
The highly automated factory, to pick only one example, can out-compete any assembly line in the world that runs the old-fashioned way, even if its workers are plugging in widgets and tightening bolts for 30 cents an hour.
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.