Featured in A Teutonic shift – 02-2018

An arm and a leg

Robotics in PV: The momentum of China’s solar growth appears unstoppable, driving the hunger for faster, qualitative automated solutions for the domestic PV manufacturing industry. Thus, most new solar manufacturing facilities or production upgrades are equipped with nearly fully automated lines.

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Sraisth

14 Feb 2018

Kuka’s robotics expertise was identified in late 2016 by Chinese industrial giant Midea Group, which quickly snapped up the German robot maker. | Source: SolarWatt

According to The Robot Report published in 2016, China accounts for 30% of the world’s robotics equipment in the industrial sector. And this number is poised to increase further over the next few years to 40% of global supply. In the solar industry recently, Chinese companies have acquired a handful of major European robotics companies. …

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