With drones, AI and e-vehicles, China crafts green-tech megalopolis


  • TECH
  • Monday, 24 Jun 2019

Workers test industrial robots at a factory of Topstar Technology during a government-organised tour to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China March 1, 2019. Picture taken March 1, 2019. REUTERS/Yuyang Wang NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE.

HONG KONG: Entrepreneur Tony Verb is on a mission to promote technology that can help make cities greener and smarter in China’s Greater Bay Area, now being shaped as a low-carbon megalopolis. 

Hong Kong-based Verb, co-founder of investment firm GreaterBay Ventures & Advisors, plans to back urban tech businesses working on autonomous e-vehicles, flying taxis, artificial intelligence, robotics and clean energy. 

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