Siasun has won foreign customers including General Motors, Ford and Schneider Electric by competing in areas outside the core area of industrial robots, which are mainly stationary and do heavy work enclosed in cages. China 's largest robot maker , Siasun is scouting Europe for companies as part of its growth strategy and also due to intensified local competition . Indeed , China 's president , Daokui Qu , warns many Chinese robot makers to go out of business as fierce price competition will not allow them to spend what they need to on research and development : " In the last three to five years , many , many new companies appeared - maybe up to 800 . It 's a terrible thing , " he said , adding : " It 's fierce , fierce competition " .
China 's largest robot maker , Siasun is scouting Europe for companies as part of its growth strategy and also due to intensified local competition . Indeed , China 's president , Daokui Qu , warns many Chinese robot makers to go out of business as fierce price competition will not allow them to spend what they need to on research and development : " In the last three to five years , many , many new companies appeared - maybe up to 800 . It 's a terrible thing , " he said , adding : " It 's fierce , fierce competition " .