Robots instead of humans: Xiaomi has begun construction of a fully robotic factory that will produce by smartphone every 3 seconds

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun announced the start of construction of a robotic factory

for the production of smartphones with the symbolic name Black Light Factory (translated as “Black Light Factory”).

What will you do?

In fact, the first stage of smart manufacturinglaunched back in August last year. In fact, at the first stage of the project, the company studied and worked on the possibility of operating automatic lines without human intervention or with minimal human intervention. It was a robotic factory for the production of smartphones with a capacity of one million devices per year.

The second stage involves the constructionautomatic production capacity of 10 million smartphones per year. The company recently received rights to use the land and immediately began construction. Both factories are located in two districts of Beijing.

The new enterprise will be completelyrobotic, which means that it will work 24 hours a day, without breaks, weekends and holidays. Every three seconds, one smartphone will roll off the conveyors, assembled, tested and packaged by robots. The plant is expected to generate at least 60 billion yuan ($9.3 billion) a year.

The new automatic production is promised to be put into operation at the end of 2023.

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