Es gibt mehr Roboter in China als der Rest der Welt zusammen – China hat eine Kampagne gestartet, um mehr Roboter in seinen Fabriken zu verwenden, seine Produktionsindustrie zu verändern und der dominierende Hersteller zu werden

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China is making and installing factory robots at a far greater pace than any other country, with the United States a distant third, further strengthening China’s already dominant global role in manufacturing.

There were more than two million robots working in Chinese factories last year, according to a report released Thursday by the International Federation of Robotics, a nonprofit trade group for makers of industrial robots. Factories in China installed nearly 300,000 new robots last year, more than the rest of the world combined, the report found. American factories installed 34,000.

While Chinese factories have been using more robots, they have also gotten better at making them. The government has used public capital and policy directives to spur Chinese companies to become leaders in robotics and other advanced technologies like semiconductors and artificial intelligence

They don’t have much of a choice if they want to maintain their leadership in manufacturing. Automation is inevitable, which means their workforce no longer gives them the edge it once did. Robots will erase that advantage, which means Western companies can use robots to manufacture at home instead of outsourcing to China. Naturally, China sees the writing on the wall and wants to get ahead of the curve. If China leads in robot-automated manufacturing, then Western companies might as well keep outsourcing to them instead of setting up their own manufacturing from scratch just to duplicate what China is already doing.