The rest are able-bodied employees who wear bear claw gloves to interact with customers and take orders.

Selfie application maker Meitu Inc will launch more internet value-added services－such as games, reading services and claw machines－as well as premium-priced smartphones and beauty-related smart hardware this year, a move that will diversify its monetization channels.

It has also created a new form of retail by combining retail with emojis through installing a claw crane, also called a teddy picker or a game machine that dispenses dolls, in Beijing's Sanlitun, a trendy business and lifestyle district.

It installed a claw crane, also called a teddy picker or a game machine that dispenses dolls, in Beijing's Sanlitun, a trendy business and lifestyle district.

However, the two indicators climbed to 49.6 and 47.8 in May and clawed back to expansionary territory one month later with readings of 50.2 and 54.7.

While the capacity utilization ratio for new energy vehicles in Lin-gang has reached 46 percent, that for the industrial chain supporting automobiles clawed back to 50 percent.

China's CPI inflation has clawed its way back above zero, with airfares recording a sizable bounce.

The spacious store, which covers an area of 1,200 square meters, displays luxury bags at a claw crane, with piles of Hermes and Louis Vuitton on the shelf.

By early afternoon, the market had clawed back some losses, but the Dow remained down 1846.24 points and the S&P 500 remained down 7.1 percent.

It installed a claw game machine that dispenses dolls, in Beijing's Sanlitun, a trendy business and lifestyle district.

But this new machine's robotic claw is tailor-made and consists of more pliable materials to ensure that it moves gently while taking oral swab samples, Sun said.

"We aim to shorten the whole process from 45 minutes to 30 minutes in the next-generation robot," Sun said, adding that its robotic claw is tailor-made to ensure that it moves gently while taking oral swab samples.

The company response came at a time when bitcoin prices had clawed back to $35,332.98 on Monday afternoon after falling by nearly 16 percent to $31,772.43 on Sunday, according to data from Coin Metrics, an information service platform for cryptocurrencies.

The market clawed back some early losses after a sharp plunge in the opening minutes of trading triggered an automatic 15-minute halt to trading, but fell at the close in the worst day of trading since 2008.

After a flying start in January, the Hang Seng Index will brace for some choppy months in March and claw its way downward to the summer, said the report.