Brain surgery robots developed by China, Japan
Chinese and Japanese researchers have jointly developed a robotic system which will likely improve the success rate of surgical brain vascular intervention.

Inspired by Singapore's famous chilli crab dish, researchers have created a miniature robot with a pincer and a hook that can remove early-stage stomach cancers without leaving any scars.
Mounted on an endoscope, it enters the patient's gut through the mouth. It has a pincer to hold cancerous tissues, and a hook that slices them off and coagulates blood to stop bleeding.

Great Wall Motors factory

Chinese, German auto firms sign co-op deal

Domestic market challenges spur producers' export drive

Foxconn Technology Group

Foxconn to have 1 million robot workers

An upsurge of workers who are replaced by robots is now a hot topic in the Pearl River Delta region, with Foxconn being one of the most prominent examples. Foxconn, one of the largest OEM (original equipment manufacture) companies in the electronic assembling industry in China, has been heavily hit by labor issues over the past few years.[full story]

Robots lift China's factories to new heights

The giant orange robotic arms that swiftly weld together car frames at the Great Wall Motors factory in Baoding might seem like the perfect answer to China's fast-rising labor costs, reported Reuters.[full story]

Experts: rising wages should feed robot boom

The government should provide fiscal and taxation incentives to encourage increased production of industrial robots.[full story]

Companies have home thoughts from abroad

'Reshoring' firms head for home

Foreign firms finding new fields

Foreign investors warm to western region

Westward ho! for China's processing trade

Workers finish a shift at a factory in Ningbo in East China's Zhejiang province. Chinese labor costs, particularly in the eastern coastal regions, are rising.[Photo/China Daily]