Chinese industrial robot makers have succeeded in taking a bigger share of the domestic market. Can they compete globally?
The Estun 6-axis robot arm on display during the World Intelligent Manufacturing Conference in Nanjing, December 6, 2023. Credit: VCG via Getty Images
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
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