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Inside China's Plans For World Robot Domination


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E-Deodar industrial robot

A technician controls an E-Deodar industrial robot fitted with a mannequin hand on the testing line.

Credit: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

Scenes from China's quest to dominate the robotic future: At startup E-Deodar, a human-looking droid serves coffee to employees who are building $15,000 industrial bots that are about a third cheaper than foreign brands and are being used to automate assembly lines across the Pearl River Delta manufacturing hub.

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