[mondoshawan]

And the vast majority of the manufacturing work (SMT, FATP, etc) in China is still done by hand at factory cities like QSMC.

Quality control is left up to the customer's oversight into the Factory's processes, and factory materials such as test fixtures or robots are usually bodged together using equipment that is so far out of whack with the task, its tantamount to using a sledgehammer as a pair of tweezers. I have literally seen SMT assembly work being done with a chisel soldering tip that is nearly five times larger than the components being soldered.

You want robots? Be prepared to write the software to drive them yourself and provide the hardware. Its nuts.