What&#x27;s the article did not talk about is Gree, the air conditioner company, actually had a robotics and precision machinery division since 2012 and they have just unveiled its first products including several industrial robots, a 3 axis CNC machine and a 5 axis CNC machine during a trade show in August of 2015.<p>She probably saw this as marketing opportunity to upset existing player in the field. Come to think of it, the ability to make a cheap precision ballpoint could also to translated to ball bearings, and that has a market orders of magnitudes bigger than ballpoint pens.