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Ilian Bonev, a robotics prof at the ÉTS in Quebec, blogged “The truth about Foxconns Foxbot industrial robots,” and included a 2008 Foxbot brochure which shows the specs for their entire robotics product line. Also included is a video showing a row of Foxbots handling, grinding and sanding what appears to be iPad back covers. Prof. Bonev thinks that with their present line-up of Foxbots, Foxconn won’t be able to meet Chairman Gou’s timetable to deploy 1 million robots by 2015 and in fact were only able to produce and install 15-30,000 Foxbots in 2012. The WSJ also reported on Foxconn’s lack of robot deployment progress in an article entitled: “Hon Hai Hits Obstacles in Push to Use Robots”. But, according to Liu Kun, a spokesman for Foxconn, “We have canceled hiring entry level workers, a decision that is partly associated with our efforts in production automation.” This is what Foxconn Chairman Gou said would happen when he began the massive robot deployment program in Foxconn factories.

Step into the factory of Chinese SUV and truck maker Great Wall Motors, and it’s easy to forget you’re in the world’s most populous country. Swiss-made robots pivot and plunge, stamping metal door frames and soldering them to the skeletal vehicle bodies of a mini-SUV called the Haval M4. The blue-smocked workers in yellow hard hats are few and far between here in Great Wall’s largest factory complex, located in Baoding, some 90 miles southwest of Beijing.

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Three EPSON RS3 robots are used in an the test & assembly of an electronic device. The video shows the 3 cells interlinked together handling a generic part as a proof of concept. The advantage of this system is that conveyors are removed from the system and the parts are moved by the robot or small fixed stop transfer stations. The result is reduced cost, improved floor space efficiency and faster throughput.

Clear Automation designed and built this workcell to build part of a circuit board. This busy workcell features 3 cartesian robots, 2 machine vision cameras, one robot controller, grease dispensing and 2 automatic screwdrivers with screw process and torque control. One of the screwdrivers is inverted to drive screws from below. The system attaches a processor chip to a heatsink and then attaches the heatsink to the PCB.