Samsung told to build bots who work for less than Foxconn staffers

What's wrong with good old fashioned

CHILD LABOUR, eh Samsung?

“Samsung should know that many investors are quietly watching how they deal with the child labour issue"

So... this! Looks like terminators come with less bad press.

I'm just waiting for the robots to start throwing themleves off their balconys.

We can do that too

If the low wage economies go that way they will enter direct competition with the west who can do it just as well if not better.

And if the robots are clever enough to build complex stuff, when do they get sentient consciousness and then start wanting better conditions, time off work, more pay.

Slippery slope, that's all.

Capitalism

The capitalist's wet dream: replace all the workers with robots who can then make your products for peanuts. Then you can make vast profits by selling these products to... Oh fuck.

It isn't China they need to beat

It is the new Chinas, like Vietnam, where labor costs are far cheaper (and Samsung makes a lot of stuff in Vietnam for that reason)

I've thought for a long time that if/when robotic assembly of stuff that is human assembled today (smartphones being a good example) becomes reasonably priced - similar to Chinese labor - that many US companies would use it to bring their manufacturing back to the US for PR reasons. Nevermind that it would create few jobs in the US once the factory was built and equipped, but they wouldn't be seen as "exploiting" foreign workers so it would be a win from that perspective.

I wonder if those who castigate companies today for low wages / long hours / etc. would castigate them for leaving foreign workers without a job? I doubt the do-gooders would appreciate the irony in getting what they want.

I suppose you could rail against companies putting entire computers on one chip

Nothing new about this, automation has been going on for a long time.

Locations with cheaper labour, manufacturing methods that require fewer hands, more automation, cheaper automation.

It is what we do and what they do. I've spent my career automating business processes and so have most Reg readers. We can't complain when others do the same.

re - Samsung and middle class tards

there was me thinking there is a bunch of working class retards out there, sort of courtesy of Samsung.

"...mechanical men..."

I would really prefer it if they made mechanical women.

It's about Profits, not humanity

"US$14.8 million" + the actual cost of producing these bots then the cost of buying them = ?

Now how many jobs could this capital support over there ?

You know you need employees that are employed to earn a salary to spend on food and products

to have an economy right ?

Oh right, profit > Humanity

Gotchya.

May not be soon but eventually we will have robots to do most of the jobs that humans do now. Gives an interesting problem - if most stuff is made by robots and services provided by robots how do the billions of people who will never work get the money to buy the goods and services that the robots produce? I don't think a Tory small government leave-things-to-the-market model will provide the answer.