Beijing is driving a rapid expansion in collaborative robots that help smaller businesses automate without replacing humans.

There’s a “factory of the future” being built in Shanghai, with $150 million in investment from Swiss-Swedish automation giant ABB. Slated for completion in 2020, the factory is a place where “robots will make robots,” according to ABB. But the cutting-edge robotics technology the facility hopes to showcase won’t cater only to heavy industrial needs. It will also largely feature “collaborative automation solutions” — known as cobots — that work with humans instead of replacing them. The facility is evidence of an emerging Chinese automation strategy that’s beginning to reshape the world’s approach to robotics.

The archetypal image of a futuristic factory involves droves of fully automated robots working nonstop — not a human worker in sight. In countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, the United Nations’ International Labor Organization predicts automated machines will replace some 137 million workers over the next 20 years. But a scenario like that could prove catastrophic for China, the world’s most populous nation. That’s why China — already at the forefront of the global robot revolution — is laying the foundations for an alternative model: an industrial landscape where cobots will work alongside human workers to create a semiautonomous production process drawing on the strengths of both.

Representation matters, and women ages 50 and up have it right now on U.S. screens.

Andrea Mitchell has been a luminary of lunchtime television in America for a decade, hosting a popular MSNBC news show. No wonder: She is smart, with expertise in foreign and domestic policy, and has an attractive, warm demeanor.

She is also, at 72 years old, well past the age that many Europeans — and, to a lesser extent, Americans — would have retired.

She is not alone. Lesley Stahl is a star of U.S. television journalism at 77. Judy Woodruff is anchor of PBS NewsHour at 72; Oprah Winfrey is a media entrepreneur at 65; Gayle King, breakfast show host, is 64, while Christiane Amanpour, another host, is 61. Maria Bartiromo and Mika Brzezinski are a more youthful 51.

How President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fates are intertwined.

President Donald Trump is going to great lengths to push his pal Benjamin Netanyahu over the finish line in the April 9 Israeli elections. The bet is Bibi will return the favor.

With Thursday’s announcement — surprise, surprise, it came via tweet — that the U.S. will recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights territory, Trump gave a critical boost to Israel’s prime minister. When the two leaders meet at the White House over two days this week, the resulting images and press coverage will prove valuable to Netanyahu’s campaign, even as he already plays up America’s president as a quasi-running mate. A Haaretz newspaper poll last year found Trump with a 72 percent approval rating in Israel.