This article analyses how local states, electronics manufacturers and low-skilled workers perceive and make decisions about automation under China’s techno-developmentalism. Since the early 2010s, local states have made automation — specifically, the substitution of robots for human workers...

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the International Conference on Mechatronics, Materials and Manufacturing (ICMMM 2014), August 2-4, 2014 Chengdu, China. The 145 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Advanced Materials Engineering and Processing Technologies; Chapter 2:...

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 4 th International Workshop of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation (IWAMA 2014), October 27-28, 2014, Shanghai, China. The 97 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Mechanisms and Machine of Manufacturing Systems, Chapter 2: Advanced...