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Tesla to build robots in China, banking on Shanghai factory’s efficiency and innovation

By Daniel Ren

Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory, its largest production base, is poised to build humanoid robots in future, relying on its manufacturing efficiency and innovative capability to advance CEO Elon Musk’s hopes of commercialising the technology swiftly. Allan Wang Hao, China president of Tesla, said in a media briefing on Tuesday that the Shanghai Gigafactory would provide a “golden key” to the mass production of robots designed to resemble and move like humans. “Like other Tesla factories, Giga...