A visitor interacts with a robot at the 2025 Pujiang Innovation Forum held in East China's Shanghai, Sept 21, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] BERLIN -- China's industrial robot stock reached a record 2,027,000 ...

China’s dominance of the rare earth metals business—with a chokehold on Western militaries and key industries—has become a key geopolitical issue. Chinese companies make most of the parts that go into ...

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China continues to lead the world in industrial robotics, installing a record 295,000 robots in 2024 alone, which accounts for over half of all global installations. This growth is part of a global ...

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -In a sprawling warehouse in a Shanghai suburb, dozens of humanoid robots are manoeuvred by their operators to carry out tasks like folding a T-shirt, making a sandwich and ...

China has overtaken the U.S. and the world in making and installing factory robots, according to a report released by the International Federation of Robotics on Thursday. The East-Asian nation ...

ZURICH (Reuters) -ABB is launching three new families of factory robots designed specially for China, the Swiss engineering company said on Wednesday, as it aims to benefit from rising demand for ...

FRANKFURT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The new World Robotics report shows robot installations in China grew by 5% and reached a new peak of 290,258 units in 2022. This was 52% of all installations ...

China is making and installing factory robots at a far greater pace than any other country, with the United States a distant third, further strengthening China’s already dominant global role in ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Beijing is dramatically pushing eldercare robots as part of its national ...

Tiangong Ultra, the winning robot competitor, running alongside human competitors in the Beijing Humanoid Robot Half Marathon, Apr. 19, 2025. Photo courtesy of an anonymous Beijing resident and race ...