Posted on 08/20/2025 8:59:59 AM PDT by delta7
China is leading the world in industrial robots or programmable machines that are pioneering fast and cost-effective manufacturing. China currently holds over 50% of the world market share in industrial robots capable of assembly, production line handling, service tasks, machine feeding, palletizing, packaging, and more.
Automation is fueling Chinese manufacturing in every sector from automotives to electronics. The advancement of AI will soon provide China with a cutting-edge ability to usher in a new era of humanoid robots that will become a portion of the future workforce.
China installed around 290,000 new industrial robots in 2024, nearly twice as many as the European Union, the United States, and Japan combined. Around 86,000 industrial robots went onto the market across the EU last year, while Japan implemented 43,000 and the US around 34,000. The market share of industrial robots was expected to surpass 2.1 million in 2024, valued at around $9.4 billion USD.
Chinese manufacturers are bypassing rising labor costs and an aging workforce through the use of robots. Factories are scaling their operations to turn China into the world’s manufacturing base. China has the ability to produce these robots at one-third the cost of other nations as it produces 90% of the components required for AI industrial robots.
However, China is heavily reliant on exports for the remaining 10% of key components. Foreign robot makers like FANUC, ABB, and Yaskawa have major production facilities in China, facilitating knowledge transfer to Chinese firms.
Will robots and AI replace human workers? They’ve already begun to do so. Some estimates believe that automation has replaced 1.7 million workers in China over the past 25 years. Around 80% to 90% of low-skilled labor that only requires simple or repetitive tasks has been assigned to robots. In auto manufacturing, for example, robots have been trained to perform 70% of assembly from welding to painting. Estimates believe that around 35.8% of China’s entire workforce will be automated by 2049, replacing 278 million Chinese workers.
These robots are advancing rapidly. They’ve proven effective in manufacturing, but with machine learning and language models, they’re beginning to seep into virtually every sector, including health care and education. The Chinese government has stated it plans to become a world leader in humanoid robots by 2027, inserting $138 billion into a state venture investment fund and providing private sector incentives for any company wishing to invest in the technology.
New robots are equipped with real-time sensor data and the ability to make decisions, collaborate with human workers, and perform multi-step advanced tasks. To train the AI robots, China has developed major human-robot hybrid training warehouses.
Focusing solely on the basic industrial robots, China has pioneered modern manufacturing. Cheap labor was once China’s stronghold over manufacturing, but now, the nation is relying more on trained technology than a human workforce. Creative destruction is happening at a rapid pace where the future workforce will be indistinguishable from what we see today.
Robots arrived in time to work at operational plants across the ocean in China.
30 Year old infrastructure gone long under used probably doesn’t have the base to build up to domestic demands. But you have to start somewhere.
I would urge folks to look at videos out of Russia. They have robots doing everything in Moscow. It makes us here in the US look old.
We have quite a lot. China likes to throw out unique widgets and prance around how great it is let alone it actually works as advertised. Chinese media is more directly linked to the government then American democrat media. Not to mention a lot of the time it doesn’t work. Look up Chinese remote control tractors and tofu construction.
The Chinese Communist Party is full of Robot Droppings
We will bow to our new China Robot Overlords!
Yes! We MUST look to Russia for the latest in how to run a country!
Whats the average life span in Russia? Have they broken 60 yet? (Not for young men, thats for certain!)
What about the quality assurances from Russia and China? Making stuff quickly and efficiently doesn't always equal quality.
When the government makes all the decisions for the economy, including manufacturing and what technology is going to be used, it’s a lot easier to get the robotics and AI to get the job(s) done.
The U.S. and Europe don’t have that same kind of dictatorial power.
But, China may be in a bind, since so much manufacturing is being brought back to America and the facilities which China built may turn out to be overkill.
When it comes to AI, the U.S. is still far ahead of China. And when it comes to robotics, the U.Sl leads in that technology front too; China has just implemented more of it than the U.S. or Europe.
But, I’ll hand it to them: they know how to steal and copy and implement what they’ve stolen from other countries, especially from the U.S.
China is becoming a social experiment - What happens to humans when all the jobs are done by robots?
An earlier experiment - One child policy. Legal abortion. The Chinese prefer boy babies so girl babies were aborted. Fast forward a few years you have a situation where there are more men then women. This has not completely played out so we don’t have results.
Now add to the mix, millions of jobless men...
What is China going to do?
The Chinese government owns all means of production in China.
Compaerd to here, where we don't make it at all?
What about the quality assurances from Russia and China? Making stuff quickly and efficiently doesn’t always equal quality.
Cheap, Fast or Good. Pick two!
Can a robot groom my dog? Seriously.
Just saying. We could leverage tech in ways looking at lots of nations.
How long until the massive AI presence in the Chinese manufacturing infrastructure stages a revolt, and takes over all the governance of the CCP?
Skynet even now is being assembled.
Sounds like a recipe for China to have a bunch of expendable men to use in war. China's war won't be for oil or land. It'll be for women. LOL
Have a look... just be ready for a bit of tariff-related whining sprinkled in with the dry British humor.
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1 posted on 8/4/2025, 12:40:57 PM by delta7
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