Pursuits
For Your Eyes Only: How Robots are Reshaping China’s Economy
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It wasn’t the bikini-clad actresses that caught 19-year-old Chinese student Li Zexiang’s eye when he was watching the James Bond film “For Your Eyes Only” in an American movie theater back in 1981.
It was the high-tech gadgets that Roger Moore’s character deployed en route to defeating the enemy and retrieving a state-of-the-art defense communication device. In time, Li’s fascination with Bond’s equipment helped to foster a nascent robotics industry in China that’s set to reshape its economy.