As Chinese wages rise, Samsung looking to replace human labor with robots

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Robots. We all love them, right? Well, would you love them if the buggers are taking your job on the conveyor belt? That's exactly what might be happening in Samsung's factories, where rising wages of Chinese workers are forcing its hand to switch to robotics for its assembly and other production needs.

Korea's government is fronting Samsung $15 million to develop and produce in-house the types of robots needed to replace human labor in the production process. We say in-house, as the government has concluded that not only is more expensive to import such machines, ...


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