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A detail of a robot being trained to greet visitors at the Zeekr electric car assembly plant in Ningbo, China . Enormous investments in factory equipment and AI are giving China an edge in car manufacturing and other industries. — Photos: QILAI SHEN/The New York Times China ’s secret weapon in the trade war is an army of factory robots, powered by artificial intelligence, that have revolutionised manufacturing.
China’s automation drive has been guided by government directives and backed with huge investment. And as robots replace workers, automation positions China to continue to dominate mass production even as its labor force ages and becomes less willing to take industrial jobs. Only four years ago, the same system was available only from foreign robot companies and cost nearly US$140,000 . “Before, I never would have imagined investing in automation,” Li said, adding that a human employee “can only work for eight hours a day, but a machine can work 24 hours”.In Ningbo, a huge factory for Zeekr, a Chinese electric carmaker, had 500 robots when it opened four years ago. Now there are 820, and many more are planned.
China’s factories still employ legions of workers. Even with the automation, they are needed to check quality and install some parts that require manual dexterity, like wiring harnesses. There are things cameras and computers cannot do on their own. Before cars are painted, workers still run gloved hands over them and sand smooth any tiny imperfections.
“Most of our colleagues’ jobs involve sitting in front of a computer monitor,” said Pinky Wu, a Zeekr worker. Car factories in the United States also use automation, but much of the equipment comes from China. Most of the world’s car assembly plants built in the past 20 years were in China, and an automation industry grew up around them.
To force the car industry to think about how to use humanoid robots with two arms and two legs, for example, government officials in Beijing told major automakers last year to rent robots and submit videos of them performing tasks in their assembly plants.
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