TOKYO/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Confronted with rising wages and a shortage of labour, a supplier of car body frames to Honda Motor last month earmarked the equivalent of a half year's profit to triple the number of robots at its three Chinese plants.
The $22 million investment by Japan-based H-One is part of a push to automate factories across China that is expected to gather pace in the wake of the recent burst of strikes and expected appreciation of the yuan.
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