{"id":118840,"date":"2021-01-24T20:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T04:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/chinas-factories-must-be-armed-with-automation-as-virus-gives-robots-a-boost"},"modified":"2021-01-24T20:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T04:23:15","slug":"chinas-factories-must-be-armed-with-automation-as-virus-gives-robots-a-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/chinas-factories-must-be-armed-with-automation-as-virus-gives-robots-a-boost","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s factories must be \u2018armed with automation\u2019 as virus gives robots a boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-factories-must-be-armed-with-automation-as-virus-gives-robots-a-boost2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Government-backed incentives and funding are still the main engines driving Chinese manufacturers to replace humans with robots in industries including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, new infrastructure projects and food processing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Trade war with US saw many companies relocate outside China, but orders came back last year as Chinese production rapidly rebounded from the coronavirus, and a robotics boom is expected in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government-backed incentives and funding are still the main engines driving Chinese manufacturers to replace humans with robots in industries including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, new infrastructure projects and food processing. Trade war with US saw many companies relocate outside China, but orders came back last year as Chinese production rapidly rebounded from the coronavirus, and a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}