Back in February, Terry Gou, founder and chairman of contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group, said he hopes to automate 70 percent of the company’s assembly operations within three years. The company, which assembles approximately 40 percent of all the consumer electronic products sold worldwide, sees robotics as a major investment direction for 2015. “I believe that in the future, the robotics industry will be bigger than the auto industry,” says Gou.