{"id":214111,"date":"2025-05-16T01:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T06:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/chinas-robot-workforce-threatens-123-million-jobs-as-prices-drop-below-35000"},"modified":"2025-05-16T01:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T06:03:46","slug":"chinas-robot-workforce-threatens-123-million-jobs-as-prices-drop-below-35000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/chinas-robot-workforce-threatens-123-million-jobs-as-prices-drop-below-35000","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s robot workforce threatens 123 million jobs as prices drop below $35,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-robot-workforce-threatens-123-million-jobs-as-prices-drop-below-35000.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd16\ud83e\uddbe\ud83d\udcb0A bot for only $35K! Next year $18K?<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201d We\u2019ve reached a tipping point where the technology and cost curves have intersected,\u201d explains Dr. Li Wei, robotics analyst at Beijing Technological Institute. \u201d A humanoid robot that cost $100,000 last year now sells for under $35,000, with prices expected to halve again by 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try searching?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83e\udd16\ud83e\uddbe\ud83d\udcb0A bot for only $35K! Next year $18K? \u201c\u201d We\u2019ve reached a tipping point where the technology and cost curves have intersected,\u201d explains Dr. Li Wei, robotics analyst at Beijing Technological Institute. \u201d A humanoid robot that cost $100,000 last year now sells for under $35,000, with prices expected to halve again by 2026.\u201d It [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214111","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\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}