Southern City Offers Factories Subsidies for Installing Robots

(Beijing) – Factories in the manufacturing hub of Foshan will install more than 20,000 industrial robots under a new government plan aimed at encouraging the upgrading of production lines, the mayor of the southern city said.

Some 3,000 robots have already been put in place, Foshan Mayor Lu Yi said on July 21 at an event held to promote the use of new technologies in the southern province of Guangdong.