- The center will open to the public in September, and will provide robotics developers a place to exhibit and sell their latest models. The robots will cater to different industrial sectors, including automobiles, furniture and machine tools.
- Officials said that they will allow only vendors of well-known brands to join and a total of 30 Chinese and foreign brands have already been selected for the initial phase.
- According to the International Federation of Robotics, about 400,000 industrial robots will have been purchased by China by 2017; while last year, only some 56,000 industrial robots were sold in the Chinese market, up 54 percent annually.
Foshan City to Open 'Robot Supermarket' in September
7. 12. 15 by Mike Anderson