China's robot makers chase Tesla to deliver humanoid workers
An analyst believes that it will take more than 20 years for the technology to achieve large-scale commercial application. China dominates the market for electric vehicles. Now it's chasing Tesla in the race to build battery-powered humanoids expected to replace human workers building electric vehicles on assembly lines.
The robotics effort is backed by President Xi Jinping's policy of developing"new productive forces" in technology – a point made in brochures for this week's event. "There is big room to squeeze the cost down," said Hu Debo, CEO of Shanghai Kepler Exploration Robotics, a company he co-founded last year inspired by Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus.Hu's company is working on its fifth version of a worker robot to trial in factories. He expects the sales price to be less than $30,000 .
"Next year there will be more than 1,000 of my compatriots in the factory," a sign next to Optimus said.
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