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????在美國出售的大部分電子產品——包括蘋果（Apple）公司的iPhone和iPad——都是由鴻海精密工業(yè)股份有限公司（Hon Hai Precision Industry）旗下的富士康（Foxconn）完成組裝。鴻海公司上周六在臺灣中部的臺中開始興建一個新的研發(fā)部門。

????臺中科技園區(qū)（the Central Taiwan Science Park）管理局在一份聲明中表示：“這項投資標志著鴻海開始努力打造一個機器人帝國。”

????這個項目由鴻海董事長郭臺銘公布，郭去年八月曾表示，他希望制造出100萬機器人，由它們來從事目前由中國工人承擔的“簡單工作”。

????法新社（AFP）報道稱，富士康計劃在未來三年內用機器人替代50萬工人。該公司的中國組裝工廠曾發(fā)生一連串的工人自殺事件。

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????Hon Hai Precision Industry, the company whose Foxconn division assembles most of the electronic products sold in the U.S. -- including Apple's (AAPL) iPhones and iPads -- broke ground Saturday on a new R&D unit in Taichung, central Taiwan.

????"The investment marks the beginning of Hon Hai's bid to build an empire of robots," the Central Taiwan Science Park authorities said in a statement.

????The project was unveiled by Hon Hai chairman Terry Gou, who announced last August that he hoped to build 1 million robots to do the "simple work" now being done by Chinese workers.

????Foxconn, which has been hit by a cluster of worker suicides in its Chinese assembly plants, plans to replace 500 000 workers with robots over the next three years according to AFP.