China Built a $1.2B Factory With No Lights, No Workers and No Breaks — It Runs 24 Hours

Описание: Inside China's $1.2 billion Midea smart factory in Shunde — a facility that runs
24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in complete darkness. No workers on the floor.
No lights. No shift changes. Just robots.

In 2022, China installed 290,367 industrial robots — more than every other country
combined. Foxconn replaced 60,000 workers with robots in a single factory.
Xiaomi built an 81,000 sq meter facility that produces 10 million smartphones a year
with zero human presence. And it's accelerating.

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behind the world's biggest projects — the parts most coverage skips.

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SOURCES & FURTHER READING
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IFR World Robotics Report 2023 — ifr.org
Made in China 2025 (CSIS English translation) — csis.org
Midea-KUKA acquisition — Bloomberg, Reuters (2016)
Xiaomi dark factory — VnExpress, Lei Jun statement (2024)
Foxconn automation — IEN, Terry Gou statement (2021)
American Society for Quality defect benchmarks — asq.org
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