{"id":74789,"date":"2018-01-02T01:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T09:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/why-chinas-ammunition-factories-are-being-turned-over-to-robots"},"modified":"2018-01-09T20:04:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T04:04:25","slug":"why-chinas-ammunition-factories-are-being-turned-over-to-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/why-chinas-ammunition-factories-are-being-turned-over-to-robots","title":{"rendered":"Why China\u2019s ammunition factories are being turned over to robots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The robots, with man-made \u201chands and eyes\u201d, could assemble different types of deadly explosives including artillery shells, bombs and rockets, he said. They could also make more sophisticated ammunition such as guided bombs, equipped with computer chips and sensors, that could carry out precision strikes.<\/p>\n

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Robots could treble China\u2019s bomb and shell production capacity in less than a decade according to a senior scientist involved in a programme that is using artificial intelligence to boost the productivity of ammunition factories.<\/p>\n

Xu Zhigang, a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Sciences\u2019 Shenyang Institute of Automation and a lead scientist with China\u2019s \u201chigh-level weapon system intelligent manufacturing programme\u201d, told the South China Morning Post<\/em> last Wednesday that about a quarter of the country\u2019s ammunition factories had replaced many workers with \u201csmart machines\u201d or begun to do so.<\/p>\n

Home-grown aircraft carrier tops list of major additions to China\u2019s navy in 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The robots, with man-made \u201chands and eyes\u201d, could assemble different types of deadly explosives including artillery shells, bombs and rockets, he said. They could also make more sophisticated ammunition such as guided bombs, equipped with computer chips and sensors, that could carry out precision strikes. Robots could treble China\u2019s bomb and shell production capacity in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74789","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=74789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74828,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74789\/revisions\/74828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}