Apple’s Iphone Factories Are Going To Get Much, Much Smarter

Foxconn, the iPhone-maker, has teamed up with Nvidia to build a global network of ‘AI factories’ which will use connected machinery and machine vision intelligence to augment human workers on the production lines. The ultimate aim is to replace production line workers as much as possible. The factories will be used to power connected applications such as digitized manufacturing, inspection workflows, robotics, and vehicle development and more. The data created by the transaction, manufacture, distribution, use, and recycling of connected devices will become more valuable and strategically important than the devices themselves.