The Rise of LinkerBot: Revolutionizing Robotics in China

If you could buy a humanoid robot for less than a smartphone, would you? Would you buy several robots to handle cooking, cleaning, babysitting, and even your job? This is the pitch being made by Zhou Yong, the 40-year-old founder and chief technology officer of LinkerBot, one of China’s leading manufacturers of dexterous humanoid hands. LinkerBot’s hardware, complete with five fingers and at least 11 joints, is sold for as little as $600 in China, with a predicted price drop to $200 in the near future. Zhou envisions a future where “everyone will own 10 robots on average.” Founded in…