Rise of the Machines

ROBOTS BUILDING ROBOTS! 

http://www.hizook.com

Foxconn has placed an order for one million industrial robots. With the intent to automate a good deal of its assembly processes. This comes at a time where Foxconn has come under scrutiny for it's treatment of workers because of the suicides, strikes, and riots. With the growing ability to replace workers with robots will we reach a point in time where the factory worker becomes largely replaced with robots? If not what advantages can human work

Once we establish a automated production process that can be easily retasked we will start the run-away portion of the exponential advancement. Such as the video above, a 3D printer that can produce the components necessary for making a copy of it's self. When we add a automated process to assemble the pieces and a brain to improve the system as a whole that will most likely lead to at least a soft singularity. 

Can't wait