In this first part of a two-part look at the China robotics scene, the managing director for Asia at STM Stieler updates his observations by looking at causes for the manufacturing slowdown and discussing robot leaders.
China’s largest robotics company opens $303m campus
Siasun Robot & Automation, China’s largest robot maker, opened yesterday a 340,000-square-foot facility able to produce 10,000 sets of robots per year. The plant, which is in Shenyang capital of Northeast China’s Liaoning province, cost $302 million and took the company five years to build, the China Daily reported. The tech-focused campus consists of a headquarters…