Will China’s AI-powered agribots repeat its EV success story?

Over the past two decades, China’s agricultural workforce has more than halved, leaving largely the elderly, the infirm and the disabled to tend vast expanses of farmland, operating small-scale plots with relatively low efficiency. While Chinese agricultural machinery does not rank globally, the shift to embodied intelligence amid the current tech revolution may reshape this status quo, said Zhao Feng, founder of Shenzhen-based robotics firm GrainCore Dynamics. With its artificial intelligence...