Apple Mac production in US may be largely robotic

Posted on Monday, December 10 2012 @ 17:08 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

ComputerWorld reports Apple's upcoming US manufacturing facility may be largely be a "robot city":

Apple's planned investment of $100 million next year in a U.S. manufacturing facility is relatively small, but still important. Apple has the money, talent and resources to build a highly automated factory that turns out products that are potentially cost competitive with those it now makes in China.

Apple has already demonstrated its use of automation in the manufacturing of some of its MacBook products, including the MacBook Air. It was built with what the company calls its "unibody design" that was crafted from a single sheet of aluminum.

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