FUTURE TECH: Robotics firms could make medical and long-term care products due to Taiwan’s strong communications infrastructure, the Adlink chairman told forum attendees

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 30, 2017
By: Lin Chia-nan  /  Staff reporter

Most Taiwanese businesses are incapable of making industrial robots, computing technology supplier Adlink Technology Inc (凌華科技) chairman Jim Liu (劉鈞) told a forum in Taipei yesterday.

However, local businesses have filled niche markets for service robots and automatic guided vehicles (AGVs), he said.

Liu made what he called “annoying remarks” at a forum in the Taipei World Trade Center, which is one of the side events at the three-day Future Tech exposition that ends today.

It is difficult for other Taiwanese manufacturers to tap into the market of robots as most of the market share was seized by the top robot makers two to three decades ago, Liu said.

About 40 percent of the world’s computers for industrial robots are made by Adlink, he said.    [FULL  STORY]