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China’s strategic plan for a robotic future is working: 500+ Chinese robot companies
Frank Tobe
07 Jun 2017
In 2015, after much research, I wrote about China having 194 robot companies and used screen shots of The Robot Report's Global Map to show where they were and a chart to show their makeup. We've just...
Factory move to U.S. creates jobs with help from robot workforce
Frank Tobe
25 Jan 2017
By investing $6 million in robots, Bicycle Corporation of America (BCA) was able to take back 10% of their manufacturing from China and place it into a new factory in Manning, South Carolina employin...
The rise of China’s medical robotics sector
Siao Tin Soh
22 Dec 2016
An emerging need
China’s once abundant labor force has contributed to the country’s astonishing economic success in recent decades. But in the coming decades, the percentage of retirees relativ...
Robots may save the global economy
Frank Tobe
13 Dec 2016
A recent article in The Washington Post by Morgan Stanley strategist and author of "The Rise and Fall of Nations" Ruchir Sharma, provides a nuanced overview of the issues of jobs, robots, productivi...
Report examines China’s expansion into unmanned industrial, service, and military robotics systems
Robohub Editors
03 Nov 2016
In October, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released a report, China’s Industrial and Military Robotics Development, prepared by the Defense Group, Inc. at the Commission’...
New Sino-Israeli Robotics Institute gets $20 million initial funding
Frank Tobe
30 Dec 2015
A consortium of Chinese companies, municipalities and investors -- including Siasun, the largest robotics firm in China and the city of Guangzhou -- have inked a deal to set up a $20 million R&...
“Made in China” initiative is nurturing robotics according to plan
Frank Tobe
21 Dec 2015
The IFR (International Federation of Robotics) estimates that by 2018, one-third of all the industrial robots installed worldwide will be in China and said, "China is engaged on a historically unprec...
More than 180,000 robotic vacuum cleaners sold on a single day
Frank Tobe
23 Nov 2015
On Singles Day 2015, a holiday for the Chinese singles and youth market, Ecovacs Robotics sold $47 million worth of robotic products. Ecovacs only has three robotic products: a line of vacuum cleaners...
194 Chinese robot companies
Frank Tobe
18 Aug 2015
In China, the robotics industry is booming. Companies are deploying thousands of robots in all types of factories, particularly in the auto industry. Chinese companies that manufacture robots and the...
‘World’s Most Dangerous Rivalry’ stoked by bowing Abe robot at CIROS
Frank Tobe
17 Jul 2015
The long-term rivalry between China and Japan, often characterised as the "World's Most Dangerous Rivalry," was exacerbated at the CIROS show held in Shanghai last week by a bowing Prime Minister Abe...
What’s propelling China’s industrial robot revolution
Frank Tobe
03 Jul 2015
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Xi Jinping, China's President, last year called for an “industrial robot revolution.” Since then China has created policies giving value added tax refunds and subsidies to companies m...
Two profitable uses for robots
Frank Tobe
05 May 2015
Industrial robots keep humming along, doing the dull, dirty and dangerous work of factories around the world. Newer applications are less often known but are quickly emerging. Here are two novel ones....
Chinese shopping for global robotics ventures
Frank Tobe
30 Apr 2015
April has seen Chinese VCs acquiring robotic ventures, buying out competitors, seeking funding to scale up production, and shoring up industry gaps....
Video describes accelerating robot deployment in China
Frank Tobe
27 Apr 2015
In response to rising labor costs combined with a shortage of workers, China has begun to provide incentives to encourage businesses to utilize robots to replace factory workers....
Sino-Russian robotics boosted as Skolkovo signs $200M deal with Chinese investment fund
Hallie Siegel
22 Apr 2015
Russia's Skolkovo Foundation and the Chinese Cybernaut Investment Group signed an agreement yesterday in Beijing to create a joint Russian-Chinese business incubator, a robotics accelerator program, ...
Foxconn begins selling noodle-making robot
Frank Tobe
28 Feb 2015
Early in 2014 Foxconn invested $25 million in Fu Jiang Robot Technology, a Shenzhen robot maker which had a dough-slicing device that was beginning to sell....
40% annual growth forecast for Chinese robotics
Frank Tobe
07 Jan 2015
Song Xiaogang, president of CRIA, China’s Robotics Industry Association, said that the number of robots sold in China in 2014 would reach 50,000; up from 36,860 in 2013....
Q1 and Q2 2014 robot sales best ever
Frank Tobe
04 Aug 2014
Following the International Federation of Robotics' (IFR) announcement earlier this year that 2013 set an all-time robotics record, the North American Robotics Industries Association announced that 2...
China International Robot Show (CIROS) a BIG hit
Frank Tobe
16 Jul 2014
CIROS, the China International Robot Show held last week in Shanghai had record crowds, record numbers of exhibitors, 168,000 sq ft of exhibition space, and exuded confidence in a thriving up-and-comi...
3d printer builds houses in China | The Guardian
Hallie Siegel
14 Jul 2014
http://youtu.be/OYqBxEAtXZA
See more at The Guardian and Mashable....
IFR Maker/User Panel at AUTOMATICA
Frank Tobe
11 Jun 2014
In a crowded back room at AUTOMATICA 2014 in Munich, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) sponsored a panel of prominent robot users explaining their needs to a panel of executives represent...
Competing sales reports for industrial robotics
Frank Tobe
29 Jan 2014
Research and Markets, an online market research store, is offering a new $3,000 report, Global and Chinese Automotive Industrial Robotics Industry Report 2013-2014, with figure...
China’s moon landing and rover tip of iceberg
Frank Tobe
20 Dec 2013
Yutu (“Jade Rabbit”), China's rover-like robot was soft-landed on the moon earlier this month. China's plans to become a global leader in robotics and space exploration are just beginning to be s...
China takes long view in funding robotics, innovation
CHEN Fei
17 Jul 2013
With the rapid economic development of the last twenty years resulting in the accumulation of great wealth, China urgently feels the need to move from a manufacturing-driven economy to an innovati...
Quadrocopter Drones from China
Wolfgang Heller
22 Jan 2013
The market of remote controlled quadrocopter drones is growing fast. The world´s first crash avoiding drone comes from Guangzhou Walkera Technology Co., Ltd. a Chinese manufacturer of R/C model t...
The rise of the robots | chinadaily
Andra Keay
05 Oct 2012
Rising labor costs, innovation drive prompt companies to use more machines in manufacturing.
As seen from a chinese perspective
See on usa.chinadaily.com.cn...
The future of Chinese-manufactured Apple products
Frank Tobe
30 Jan 2012
... Two NY Times articles expose details about the treatment of 400,000+ Chinese workers involved in the production of Apple products: (1) In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad and (2) How the ...
