{"id":13750,"date":"2015-03-15T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13750"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:07:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:07:03","slug":"chinas-factories-are-building-a-robot-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/chinas-factories-are-building-a-robot-nation","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s factories are building a robot nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Li<b>Xuena, <\/b>Wang<b>Xinci <\/b>\u201aZhang<b>Boling \u2014 MarketWatch<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<\/b>Every day, two quality-control supervisors monitor four robots tirelessly assembling remote-control devices for home appliances at a Midea Group <span class=\"quote up bgQuote\" data-channel=\"\/quotes\/zigman\/21097444\/delayed\"><a class=\"qt-chip trackable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/stock\/000333?countrycode=cn&amp;mod=MW_story_quote\" data-fancyid=\"XSHEStock000333\" data-track-mod=\"MW_story_quote\">000333, <span class=\"bgPercentChange\">+1.04%<\/span><\/a><\/span> factory in Foshan, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.<\/p>\n<p>The robots recently replaced 14 workers on the plant\u2019s assembly line for remote controls. And soon, according to Midea\u2019s home-air-conditioner division deputy general manager Wu Shoubao, more robots will arrive to replace the quality-control supervisors.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/chinas-factories-are-building-a-robot-nation-2015-03-08\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By LiXuena, WangXinci \u201aZhangBoling \u2014 MarketWatch Every day, two quality-control supervisors monitor four robots tirelessly assembling remote-control devices for home appliances at a Midea Group 000333, +1.04% factory in Foshan, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. The robots recently replaced 14 workers on the plant\u2019s assembly line for remote controls. And soon, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46579,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions\/46579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}