Robots to make robots at ABB’s new US$150mil factory in China

FILE PHOTO: Humanoid robot YuMi conducts the Lucca Philharmonic Orchestra performing a concert alongside Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli (unseen) at the Verdi Theatre in Pisa, Italy September 12, 2017. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo

ZURICH: Robots will make robots at a new ABB factory in China, which the Swiss engineering group said it plans to build for US$150mil (RM626.85mil) in Shanghai as it defends its place as the country's largest maker of industrial robots.

The factory, located near ABB's China robotics campus, is due to be operating by the end of 2020 and will produce robots for China as well as for export elsewhere in Asia. China is ABB's No. 2 market after the United States.