End of the line for cheap labour - China turns to robots as costs rise

Worker shortages in Chinas factories are forcing manufacturers to turn to automation.

A factory with neat rows of machines and just two workers is the antithesis of the typical image of Chinese manufacturing. At other facilities in the industrial province of Guangdong, just across the border from Hong Kong, thousands of workers are typically hunched over their work stations making everything from iPhones to running shoes ... READ MORE

Released by the Financial Times - 5 October 2012