When most of us think of smartphones made in China, we probably imagine dozens of factory workers sitting in a line, deftly inserting components. But as I found out after a visit to Honor’s Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park in Shenzhen, barely any humans are involved these days.
Instead, I saw rows and rows of automated assembly machines, with Honor’s flagship phones made right before my eyes as I went down the line. The machines basically did 85% of the work, with the odd human here and there finishing the last 15%. I saw a lady working in a dust-free zone putting in camera lenses, with the next machine in line waiting to check if any dust got in.
