A robotic arm picks up a book to hand it to a reader at a library in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, on Tuesday. Chip implants in some 2,000 books allow the robotic arm to pick up the correct copies from bookshelves.

[Photo by Pan Kanjun/For China Daily]

[Photo by Pan Kanjun/For China Daily]

[Photo by Pan Kanjun/For China Daily]