Cisco also announced earlier today an agreement for sale of its set-top box manufacturing facility in Juarez, Mexico, to Foxconn Technology Group.

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Labor issues became so serious that Foxconn Technology Group, which now employs 1.2 million workers in China, decided it had to automate.

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One of the biggest could be Foxconn Technology Group, maker of products for tech giant Apple, which is talking of plans to put a million robots in its factories.

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