Global Courant
BEIJING – Chinese industrial robot manufacturers are preparing to challenge the long-established dominance of global giants by capitalizing on growing demand from China’s booming domestic electronics industry and the need to upgrade manufacturing.
According to MIR Databank, the domestic share of industrial robots in China has doubled from 17.5 percent in 2015 to 35.5 percent in 2022. The growth of Chinese robot companies has accelerated significantly in recent years, partly due to supply chain disruptions affecting the made it more difficult to access foreign products and in part because of a growing need for automation in small and medium manufacturing companies amid labor shortages in the pandemic era.
