China’s factories have been at the heart of the country’s economic rise, helping the country come to account for nearly a third of global manufacturing and providing millions of jobs in the process. Increasingly, though, robots are taking over. Equipment made by Chinese robot manufacturer Estun at work in a CATL factory. Credit: CATL By the end of last year, Chinese manufacturers had deployed 470 robot units per 10,000 workers, some three times the global average, new data from the