Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and Apple's major iPhone supplier, is soon going to move towards full automation. The company's chairman Young Liu said at Computex 2025 in Taipei that in the future most of the manual work in factories will be done by robots and generative AI, reducing the need for low-skilled human workers.
Now it's the era of "bots and brains" : - Young Liu said Foxconn has already incorporated generative AI into its workflow, which has increased the efficiency of production. AI-supported software is able to automate 80% of the work of setting up a new production line, saving both time and cost.
He said, "We thought that maybe we could replace every human, but soon realized that this is not completely possible." AI is now helping the company solve production problems quickly and human experts can now focus on more valuable tasks.
Foxconn's own AI model : -Foxconn is now building its own AI model called FoxBrain, which will combine Meta's Llama 3 and 4 models with the company's operational data to create an agentic workflow. The model will help solve ground-level tasks in the factory and the company plans to open-source it.
Foxbots and digital twins : -
Foxconn builds about 10,000 Foxbots every year, which are replacing human workers. The company has already claimed to have automated 60,000 jobs in one factory and had set a target of 30% automation in its Chinese plants by 2020.
Foxconn is now also building and simulating digital twin factories using Nvidia's Omniverse, allowing the planning and processes of the factory to be optimized with AI before it is even built.
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