Chinese companies bought 80 per cent more industrial robots in the period from July to September 2017 than they did in the same period last year.
This is according to the Japan Robot Association, which released a range of statistics which suggest that Chinese manufacturers of smartphones and other electronics products are turning to Japanese companies for their automation requirements.
JRA has yet to release the full report for the period, but Nikkei reports that the association’s members shipped robots valued at a total of $1.72 billion. [Read more…] about Chinese companies bought 80 per cent more robots from Japan this year, says report