A group of six Canadian companies has visited Hong Kong looking for partners to become involved in hi-tech business ventures.
They included CRS Robotics, Metrowerks, Samsys, Vasogen and the Laser Centre.
CRS Robotics makes sophisticated robots that handle jobs humans are uninterested in or afraid of doing.
Chief executive Raymond Simmons said the robots handled the four Ds: dirty, dangerous, dull and difficult. He said Asia would soon make up 60 per cent of the market for the firm's products.
Metrowerks chief financial officer Jim Welch said his company was keen to publicise that it did not only make software for Apple's Macintosh platform.
Metrowerks makes one of the only development environments for US Robotics' Pilot, the extremely successful hand-held device it brought out last year.
