Apple CEO Tim Cook to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on bringing iPhone manufacturing to the US: I don’t like to employ all these people foreign, but I need to have …

Apple CEO Tim Cook told Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that advanced robotics technology would be the key catalyst for bringing iPhone manufacturing to American soil, according to comments Lutnick made in a CNBC interview.

“I talked to Tim Cook the other day and said, ‘When are you going to bring the iPhone?’ When are you going to bring the iPhone manufacturing here?” Lutnick revealed. “He said, ‘I need to have the robotic arms to do it at a scale and precision that would allow me to bring it here.'”