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中国已经制定了成为新时代工厂的雄心 - 以人工智能驱动的机器人和能够制造，组装和检测的传感器为特色。
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catapult[ˈkætəpʌlt] vt.弹射
taproot[ˈtæpru:t] n.直根
irk[ɜ:k] vt.激怒
gait[geɪt] n.步态
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China has laid out its ambitions to be the factory of the new era — featuring robots powered by artificial intelligence and sensors capable of manufacturing, assembling and inspecting.
The latest push, on display at China’s Hi-Tech fair in Shenzhen this month, catapults AI from the services sector — where it has been widely deployed via chatbots, targeted ads and newsfeeds — on to the factory floor.
Boosting manufacturing, the taproot of China’s economic rise, is a key part of Beijing’s Made in China 2025 policy. The sector’s leading edge has been eroded by rising wages, prompting manufacturers to move to cheaper locations such as Vietnam — and triggering Beijing’s efforts to ramp up productivity via technology
“They want to continue to be the world’s factory but not only of low-end items like toys and electronics,” said Edison Lee, analyst at Jefferies. “But because labour is no longer cheap they need to raise the productivity of factories and people.”
The policy has irked Washington, which sees it as a state-driven and funded policy that will disadvantage overseas competitors, but has been quickly adopted by domestic companies.
“We incubated this platform so we can meet the [Made in China 2025] policy,” said Sabrina Li, a senior manager at IngDan, standing beside intelligent robots that have manned the production lines at food processing plants. One noodle factory was able to do dismiss 30 people, she added, “making it more productive and efficient”.
At the other end of the manufacturing process are the quality control scanning machines sold by Suzhou Govion Technology.
“A person looking by eye would take 5-6 seconds for each object, versus 2-3 seconds by machine,” said Zhangli Xing, deputy manager. “And humans will get tired and make more errors.”
Flesh-and-blood workers, however, are not about to be eliminated completely — prompting companies such as Sinomach Intelligence Tech Company, to produce “collaborative robots” capable of working alongside humans without posing any danger to them.
These “collaborative robots” mark a change from the more usual manufacturing robots, said sales engineer Huang Xiaoan, which are used for heavy duty work such as welding and drilling.
Chipmakers are following suit: the new breed of chipmakers, such as Cambricon and Horizon Robotics, are making application-specific chips for industries such as autonomous driving and facial recognition.
The latter remains the biggest game in town and booths where full of screens capturing the faces — and gait — of visitors. While the technology is increasingly used by different industries, including retailers checking out what goods are catching shoppers’ eyes, it is still mostly deployed for security and surveillance.
请根据你所读到的文章内容，完成以下自测题目：
A. Service
B. Agriculture
C. Manufacturing
D. Space
答案 (1)
A. Chinese companies are slow to adopt AI.
B. China is determined to stop being "the world’s factory".
C. The US sees Made in China 2025 as a threat.
D. The current goal is to replace all human workers with robots.
答案 (2)
A. Marketing
B. Beauty
C. Security and surveillance
D. Health care
答案 (3)
(1) 答案：C解释：Boosting manufacturing, the taproot of China’s economic rise, is a key part of Beijing’s Made in China 2025 policy.
(2) 答案：C解释：The policy has irked Washington, which sees it as a state-driven and funded policy that will disadvantage overseas competitors, but has been quickly adopted by domestic companies.
(3) 答案：C解释：While the technology is increasingly used by different industries, including retailers checking out what goods are catching shoppers’ eyes, it is still mostly deployed for security and surveillance.