Terry Gou clearly enjoyed himself last week, when joining a crowd of break-dancing young workers who man the factory lines at Foxconn Technology Group, the company he built into the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer. He was throwing a party at the company’s largest factory complex, in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, as part of efforts to give his manufacturing colossus a human face. Rather than leaving it at just dancing, however, a radiant Mr Gou went on to announce plans to equip his factories with as many as 1m new robots, some of which would “replace” human beings. His audience was shocked.