STMicroelectronics plans robots, retraining to avoid closures

SOPOT, Poland, March 13 (Reuters) - STMicroelectronics unveiled plans on Thursday to retrain workers and deploy robots in its older chip manufacturing ‌plants, avoiding closures as the European semiconductor giant navigates industry challenges.

At a ‌semiconductor conference in Sopot, Poland, hosted by industry group SEMI, Thomas Morgenstern, STMicro's head of manufacturing, showed ​a video of a robot placing a silicon wafer carrier into a machine.