{"id":25160,"date":"2016-04-28T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T03:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/chinas-robot-revolution"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:26:26","slug":"chinas-robot-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/chinas-robot-revolution","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s robot revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NiwbMTI38oM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s love of robots.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Ying Ao sink foundry in southern China\u2019s Guangdong province does not look like a factory of the future. The sign over the entrance is faded; inside, the floor is greasy with patches of mud, and a thick metal dust \u2014 the by-product of the stainless-steel polishing process \u2014 clogs the air. As workers haul trolleys across the factory floor, the cavernous, shed-like building reverberates with a loud clanging.<\/p>\n<p>Guangdong is the growth engine of China\u2019s manufacturing industry, generating $615bn in exports last year \u2014 more than a quarter of the country\u2019s total. In this part of the province, the standard wage for workers is about Rmb4,000 ($600) per month. Ying Ao, which manufactures sinks destined for the kitchens of Europe and the US, has to pay double that, according to deputy manager Chen Conghan, because conditions in the factory are so unpleasant. So, four years ago, the company started buying machines to replace the ever more costly humans.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/1dbd8c60-0cc6-11e6-ad80-67655613c2d6.html#axzz47BMHNmqf\">http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/1dbd8c60&#45;0cc6&#45;11e6-ad80&#4...z47BMHNmqf<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s love of robots. The Ying Ao sink foundry in southern China\u2019s Guangdong province does not look like a factory of the future. The sign over the entrance is faded; inside, the floor is greasy with patches of mud, and a thick metal dust \u2014 the by-product of the stainless-steel polishing process \u2014 clogs the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61935,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160\/revisions\/61935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}