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Though China still has more industrial robots than the rest of the world combined, newer, more flexible robots are keeping smaller U.S. manufacturers in the fight, writes Christopher Mims.

Son has told associates he hoped to incorporate robots in chip-manufacturing plants that will power AI.

CGS estimates that the market size of humanoid robots could reach 3 trillion yuan by 2040.

"We are already working on bringing the total processing time down by using a robot to automate these steps," Yee says.

Once a luxury reserved for big manufacturers, smaller, smarter, more flexible and less expensive “cobots”—collaborative robots—are bringing automation to every fabricator, no matter the size.