Read by: Todd Mundt
Language: English
Length: 19 minutes
Publisher: MIT Technology Review
Release date: 2016-04-29
Inside a large, windowless room in an electronics factory in south Shanghai, about 15 workers are eyeing a small robot arm with frustration. Near the end of the production line where optical networking equipment is being packed into boxes for shipping, the robot sits motionless.
"The People's Robots" is from the May/June issue of MIT Technology Review Magazine.