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Diligent’s Vivian Chu and Labrador’s Mike Dooley will discuss assistive robotics at TC Sessions: Robotics+AI

Too often the world of robotics seems to be a solution in search of a problem. Assistive robotics, on the other hand, are among one of the primary real-world tasks existing technology can seemingly ad

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Soft Robotics raises $23 million from investors including industrial robot giant FANUC

Robotics startup company Soft Robotics has closed its Series B round of funding, raising $23 million led by Calibrate Ventures and Material Impact, and including participation from exiting investors i

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Tibet's per capita disposable income grows fast in 2019

The per capita disposable income of residents in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region saw fast growth in 2019, local authorities said Monday. The per capita dispo

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Top political advisor stresses private enterprises' role in high-quality development

China's top political advisor Wang Yang has stressed the role of private enterprises in the country's pursuit of high-quality development. Wang, a member of the Standi

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Ministry: China built 130,000 5G base stations by end of 2019

The major indicesof China's industrial economy met expectations in 2019, the ministry of industry and information technology said on Monday. China achieved a big increase in its total telecom busi

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Curling coaches say experience key for Chinese athletes to improve

The performance of four Chinese youth curlers has caught the eye of some international curling coaches' since the start of c events at Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne. "Chinese players are re

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China's GDP per capita over $10,000 mark, huge potential remains

Editor's note: Chen Jiahe is chief investment officer at Novem Arcae Technologies. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.China's National Bureau of Stat

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Erdogan blames int'l community for not showing fast response to Libya's crisis

ISTANBUL, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday blamed the international community for not showing immediate response against the ongoing civil war in Libya. "The reckl

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Xi visits Yunnan on inspection tour ahead of Chinese New Year

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, visited southwest China's Yunnan Province Sunday on an inspection tour ahead of Chines

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Samsung invests $500M to set up a smartphone display plant in India

Samsung, which once led India’s smartphone market, is investing $500 million in its India operations to set up a manufacturing plant at the outskirts of New Delhi to produce displays.The company discl

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SpaceX could catch future Crew Dragons with astronauts onboard using ships at sea

SpaceX demonstrated a safety system that will protect astronauts in the case of any unfortunate unforeseen accidents in future Crew Dragon flights, which included the spacecraft splashing down in the

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SpaceX blows up rocket to test astronaut escape system

The capsule, which will eventually carry astronauts, moved out of harms way as the rocket fell into a fireball and crashed.

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Documentary recording China-U.S. relations premiers in San Francisco

A 10-episode documentary series that recorded the 40-year history of China-U.S. relations premiered Saturday at the San Francisco Public Library. The documentary, produced by People's Daily Online We

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China reveals plan to cut plastic use by 2025

China on Sunday released an ambitious plan to ban or significantly reduce the production and use of environmentally-unfriendly plastic products in the next five years

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Does U.S. have a "hammer over China" in IP and technology transfers?

01:58 Darin LaHood from the U.S.House of Representatives spoke on FOX Business Wednesday that the U.S.has a "hammer over China" in terms of intellectual property and technology transfe

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U.S. imposes sanctions on Iran's IRGC general

The U.S. State Department said Saturday that it had imposed sanctions on a brigadier general of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). The department said in a

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Dinosaur extinction not caused by volcanic eruption: Study

Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, an international team led by researchers at Yale University has found.The study, published this