Midea, Eyeing China’s Huge Aging Population, Targets Robotics With Yaskawa | Forbes            
    
       
       
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
      
     
    
     
   
     
     
   
    
    
    
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 China home appliance maker Midea Group, whose largest individual shareholder is billionaire He Xianjian, said on Wednesday it had formed joint ventures with Yaskawa Electric of Japan, one of the world’s top suppliers of robots.

     
    
    
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
      
      
     
     
     
	
  
     
 
 
     
Adriana Hamacher  
Associate Editor at Robohub and the UK's Knowledge Transfer Network and a contributor to Economist Insights 
    
  
      
  
     
    
 
 
     
Adriana Hamacher 
Associate Editor at Robohub and the UK's Knowledge Transfer Network and a contributor to Economist Insights