As Beijing Hosts the Year's Biggest Robotics Fair, Taiwan, an Island of 23 Million People, Is Staging Its Own Event Across the Strait

Humanoid robots that dance and address the public, industrial robots, military robots... In Taiwan as in China, the goal is the same: convincing investors and the public that robotics is a fast-growing sector with unlimited technological potential. While more than 90% of humanoid and quadruped robots exported worldwide are Chinese, Taiwan is trying to carve out a niche with a very specific selling point: robots guaranteed to contain no parts imported from China.