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Technology Gap Gives Foreign Firms The Edge In China Robot Wars


Ron Burgundy
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A Baxter robot of Rethink Robotics picks up a business card as it performs during display at the World Economic Forum, in China's port city DalianBy Gerry Shih DALIAN, China (Reuters) - In a cavernous showroom on the outskirts of this port city in northeastern China, softly whirring lathes and svelte robot arms represent Dalian Machine Tools Group's (DMTG) vision of an automated future for Chinese manufacturing. On closer inspection, however, most of the machines' control panels bear the logos of Japan's FANUC Corp or the German conglomerate Siemens. The imported control systems in DMTG's products – used in the assembly of everything from smartphones to cement trucks – are symbolic of the technology gap between Chinese and foreign industrial automation firms, just one of several challenges facing China's ambition to nurture a national robotics industry.




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