China Robots

The future of ‘Made in China’: Industrial robots replacing dwindling workforce

The factory looks like many others in China’s heavily industrialized Guangdong province — crates and scrap metal outside, vats of steaming chemicals and rows of stainless steel parts inside. Workers are dwarfed by the mammoth metal presses they run, loud and grimy like something out of the industrial revolution. Indeed, these plants have been the foundation of China’s manufacturing revolution, …