As Chinese wages rise, Samsung looking to replace human labor with robots

Robots. We all love them, right? Well, would you love them if the buggers are taking your job on the conveyor belt? That's exactly what might be happening in Samsung's factories, where rising wages of Chinese workers are forcing its hand to switch to robotics for its assembly and other production needs.
The whole project of replacing some of the ever-more-expensive Chinese labor with robots in Samsung's factories should be finished by 2018. As per the Korean Minister of Trade and Industry: "Once affordable robots reach the market and are more widely used, it can lead to the creation of ‘smart factories’ and bring about far-reaching innovations to the manufacturing sector."
source: YonhapNews via SamMobile