On June 1, our reporter saw 37 robots operating along a 95-metre automated production line at Yiqing Group’s Honghe Science and Technology Industrial Park.

The robot is referred to in China as a “bright pearl on the crown of manufacturing”. “This is Yiqing Group’s first automated robot production line and the world’s largest in terms of daily output. Here robots are used to produce more robots,” said Ouyang Chaoqun, general manager of the Robot and Smart Home Appliances Division at Yiqing Group. A total of 37 robots control other machinery, precision instrument machining and other core technologies along the production line. The assembly line is designed to produce 90 industrial robots that have between four and six joints and weigh between one and fifty kilograms. These industrial robots will be deployed in various industries such as mining, agriculture, medicine, electronics, communication, and computers. They are especially irreplaceable for high-risk, high-intensity and high-precision industries.