Apple’s goals of automating product assembly haven’t gone as planned
There are a lot of humans standing on assembly lines building products, including Apple devices, but some companies have had their sights set on automating that routine for years. And in some categories, including automobile manufacturing, it has worked out. But that is apparently not the case for Apple, as a new report fromThe Informationdetails. The story explains how Apple, almost a decade ago, started an endeavor to get robots to manufacture products like the iPad, but, since then, that transition has not gone as expected....