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adaml_623 on July 31, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Foxconn to replace workers with 1 million robots i...

You have references but they don't back up that implication robots are being used in US factories.

There are a lot of things that have changed in US factories in the last 35 years but I don't think widespread use of robots is one of them. But I can't find references :-(

mseebach on July 31, 2011 [–]

For the purpose of this discussion, any machine that automates or assists in a task is a robot. Electric screwdrivers and conveyor belts are robots, albeit unsophisticated ones.

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