Apple CEO Tim Cook says that the premise of assembling iPhones in the United States is having robotic arm technology.

US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick revealed in an interview that Apple CEO Tim Cook has expressed a desire to eventually produce iPhone in the United States, but the condition is to have robotic arm technology, as the company does not want to hire a large number of employees, as this would bring risks to the company. Lutnick stated that he does not want to see labor-intensive assembly plants in the United States, instead, Americans will be the technology personnel driving the development of factories, obtaining high-paying jobs through the AI industrial revolution.