A man prepares a robot at the stall of the Harbin Haiying Robot Manufacturing Company at the 2017 World Robot Conference in Beijing, China August 22, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
China is installing more robots than any other nation, and that may affect every other nation.
Shipments jumped 27% to about 90,000 units last year, a single-country record and almost a third of the global total, and will nearly double to 160,000 in 2019, the International Federation of Robotics estimates.
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