Foxconn has been talking about doing this for at least four years. Mostly because robots can produce repeated operations with great precision and you don’t have to deal with labor issues, either.
“Mostly because robots can produce repeated operations with great precision....”
That made me think of the Michael Douglas movie “Disclosure” (1994). Douglas character was an executive in a computer hardware company, and had specified robots be used for a critical assembly at an oversees plant. His new boss, played by Demi Moore, secretly countermands those orders, and has the assembly done by hand — to “create jobs” and pander to the foreign government. The humans can’t do the work with the necessary precision, and trouble ensues.
There’s more — but, I just wanted to mention that your point was a plot device in a major Hollywood moving picture show.
They can also work 24 hours a day.