Report: Foxconn Teaming Up With Google Robotics

Foxconn — the controversial Taiwanese company with manufacturing facilities throughout Asia — is known for assembling Apple iPhones and iPads, but it looks like it's been quietly working with Google too

According to The Wall Street Journal, Foxconn recently met with Android founder Andy Rubin to discuss opportunities related to Google's budding robotics efforts

Rubin reportedly told Foxconn it wants the facilities' mechanical engineering expertise to help integrate tech from a company Google is acquiring.

Google's interest in robotics has grown significantly in the past year — it acquired 8 robotics companies in 2013, including Boston Dynamics, which develops the Pentagon's mobile research robots. (Its robots can runner faster than any human). Read more...