Apple has a history of embracing robotics, so this is in line with their DNA (circa 1984): https://thenextweb.com/news/steve-jobs-designed-apple-factor...

This also implies that the work could be onshored if the supply chain can handle it.

As @hyperhello pointed out: automation comes at a cost of lost jobs and we need to figure out how to make an automated society work that is not completely dystopian. My hopes are tempered in that regard.

You’d still have the issues of needing all those individual parts to assemble, which are likely all from China already.