Inside the Chinese dumpling factory where robots do all the work
Video offers insight into how automated plant can produce frozen food round the clock with no need for human workers
A factory in northern China is now making frozen dumplings without a single human.
Instead, rows and rows of robots work 24 hours a day in the unmanned factory in Qinhuangdao, Hebei province. They knead the dough, add stuffing, fold the dumplings, package them and fast freeze them.
A video originally posted on the Chinese streaming site Pear Video showed machines working systematically from assembly lines to fold and sort the food.
Online users had mixed reactions to the video, with some worried about possible job losses from automation while others insisted that handmade dumplings were still superior.
“Will robot-made dumplings be tastier than handmade ones?” a Beijing-based social media user said.
“The taste of these mechanical ones will never be able to replace handmade ones, right now it won’t, and in the future it still won’t,” one Shanghai-based user said. “But the fast food industry may be affected.”