Foxconn is going to be the first company to utilize robots in mass producing consumer devices, and Apple was noted to be the first company to benefit from what they refer to as the "Foxbots".

Foxconn said that the new "Foxbots" cost around $20,000 to $25,000 per unit, where each is capable of assembling an average of 30,000 devices. According toFoxconn CEO, Terry Gou, the company will be deploying 10,000 robots to the factories before they would have to expand their production sometime in the future. He said that the robots are now in their "final testing phase."

Aside from providing an increased production rate, the new robots may also help redeem Foxconn from numerous controversies in the past that includes abuse by management, poor working and living conditions, low wages, as well as environmental pollution, which ultimately forced CEO Tim Cook to boost Apple's supplier responsibility efforts in order to uphold good will and transparency.

According to MacRumors, Apple may have also helped Foxconn in creating these new robots since the company's annual 10-K report from 2013 showed that an amount of $10.5 billion was invested on "advanced supply chain technology," with part of it going directly to the "advanced machinery including assembly robots".

Earlier this year, Digitimes said that Apple would put the production of iPhone batteries in automation. This should divert massive manpower to focus on other parts of the device.

Now that Foxconn is preparing Apple's latest iPhone, which is supposedly the "iPhone 6," around 100,000 new workers will be hired for the project. The phone may have a thinner and rounder form factor and a 4.7-inch Retina display made of sapphire glass, courtesy of the company's new plant in Arizona.

Apple may also launch another larger 5.5-inch iPhone model, a few new iPads, and even the company's first smartwatch around that same timeframe, meaning Foxconn has a big role to play in Apple's various product rollouts this fall.

Besides Apple devices, Foxconn also builds numerous devices for companies like Apple, Microsoft, Sony, BlackBerry and Nintendo.