---
title: "Foshan City to Open ‘Robot Supermarket’ in September"
description: "Government officials of Foshan City in Guangdong Province have announced plans to open a 20,000-square-meter-plus \"robot supermarket\" in the city's Shunde District."
date: "2015-07-12"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Mike Anderson"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/manderson"
url: "https://futurism.com/foshan-city-to-open-robot-supermarket-in-september"
categories:
  - "Robotics"
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "robotics"
---

# Foshan City to Open ‘Robot Supermarket’ in September

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/chinarobotics1.jpg>)

- 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.