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China Plans To Build a Domestic Robotics Industry

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-your-robots-are-belong-to-us dept.

jfruh writes China is known as a manufacturing export powerhouse, but it imports much of one particularly important kind of manufacturing tool: robots. Now the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is developing a "robotics technology roadmap," with a goal of owning over 45 percent of the high-end robotics market by 2020.

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  1. Incorrect headline. by Kartu · · Score: 3, Informative

    Stealing (e.g. learning / copying what others did, legally or not) is a great way to develop industry from scratch.
    Note that many things they do go far beyond stealing. E.g.:
    1) Moon probe returning back to earth
    2) High speed trains (this one started with importing technology from all countries with major know how)
    3) Longest bridge in the world
    4) Biggest dam in the world

    My point is, the steal at times, but they are not limited to it.