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IDemo

(16,926 posts) Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:40 AM Dec 2015

'Workshop of the World' China Bets on a Robot Revolution

BEIJING — China will soon be home to more than one-third of the world's latest robots as the automation revolution takes root in the manufacturing powerhouse.

Global brands have long relied on China's large, cheap labor force to sew, weld and solder products exported abroad. But humans are now increasingly making way for robots on factory floors across the country.

Demand for robots in China has quadrupled in the last four years, making it home to nearly a quarter of the world's industrial robots, according to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). Demand for such machines doubled during the same period in the U.S.

By 2018, the IFR estimates that more than one-third of the world's industrial robots will be installed in China.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/workshop-world-china-bets-robot-revolution-n482301

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Major economic mistake. DetlefK Dec 2015 #1

DetlefK

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1. Major economic mistake.

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Wed Dec 23, 2015, 11:32 AM

Dec 2015

If China uses robotic slave-labor, how will they keep chinese citizens employed?

If they use both, robotic slave-labor and paid human workers, where are all the ressources for this huge economic growth supposed to come from?

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