The hearing's theme was "China's pursuit of next frontier tech: computing, robotics and biotechnology." Christensen's testimony was part of a panel on military and industrial robotics. He was quoted on the topic of industrial robotics and China in a January story in The New York Times.
Below is a summary in tweets of Christensen's testimony:
1/ @UCSanDiego #robotics expert @hiskov testified @ US-China #economic& #security review commission on industrial & military #robots today— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) March 16, 2017
2/ @hiskov #Robotics is an industry tinvented and developed in the US. Today many industrial robots are made in Japan, Germany and China.— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) March 16, 2017
3/ @hiskov: Until 2013 US was the largest market for #industrialrobots. Today the Chinese market is 2.4 times larger than the US market.— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) March 16, 2017
4/ @hiskov The Chinese #robotics industry is only emerging. Most #robots sold in China are made by joint venture companies the norm there.— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) March 16, 2017
5/ @hiskov: China wants to the leader in #industrialrobotics. Growth in US is 9-13% in this area while it's more than 40%+ in China.— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) March 16, 2017
6/ Today many #robotics companies are investing in China rather than USA because that's is where the big opportunity is.— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) March 16, 2017
7/ But US #universities and #innovation ecosystem still attractive to college grads. So #robotics companies house R&D centers in US.— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) March 16, 2017
— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) March 16, 2017
More info on the Contextual Robotics Institute at UC San Diego here: http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/contextualrobotics/
Christensen's website here: http://www.hichristensen.net/
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