China Overtakes Germany and Japan In Robot Density (reuters.com) 20
China has overtaken Germany and Japan in terms of robot density, according to an annual report by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). Reuters reports: South Korea is the world leader with 1,012 robots per 10,000 employees, up 5% since 2018, said the IFR. Singapore comes next, followed by China with 470 robots per 10,000 workers - more than double the density it had in 2019. That compares with 429 per 10,000 employees in Germany, which has had an annual growth rate of 5% since 2018, said IFR.
Re: ok?? (Score:2)
Lots of bridges and high rises too.
Let's hope the robots at least are not filled with "structural" bags of rubbish.
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You measuring what aspects?
Re: ok?? (Score:4, Interesting)
You can't possibly have been there - at least not recently. It's perfectly pleasant living in China, and very safe with it. It has some problems but not much compared to western countries, in my experience.
Fewer babies = More robots (Score:5, Interesting)
The top countries for robots are South Korea, Singapore, China, and Japan.
These countries have the lowest birth rates in the world.
South Korea: 0.9
Singapore: 1.1
China: 1.2
Japan: 1.3
List of countries by TFR [wikipedia.org]
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According to that same list, Italy and Spain are also sitting at 1.3 as well. European countries just chose the kind of robotics where you import biorobots from Africa instead. The Asian choice is arguably more sustainable since it's only a matter of time before African countries also start hitting sub 1.5 rates.
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Italy is the original "no children" country in Europe. You may remember 2019 "hug a Chinese immigrant, to show that you're not racist and COVID isn't real" campaign.
Now consider why there are so many Chinese immigrants in Italy in 2019 that such a campaign had to be organized by Italian state and it will click.
Spain isn't far behind Italy in this regard, but it's nowhere near as bad.
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Robots started to become common in Japan about a decade ago. First at some shops where a very basic robot could give you some information about the products. Then restaurants where robots would follow pre-defined routes to deliver food to tables.
I think by far the most common type are vacuum cleaner robots. They seem to be popular based on how much space is given over to them in electronics retailers, and how many reviews I see of new ones.
On the industrial side, Japan used to lead in the development of rob
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Re:Fewer babies = More robots (Score:4, Insightful)
The highest birthrates you find in countries with recent or ongoing civil wars, break down of society, virtually non existence of medicine and widespread poverty.
High rates of robot use point to a highly developed production sector, which is true for all those four countries. The U.S. and Germany for instance have a considerably larger service sector, which is less robotized.
Re: Fewer babies = More robots (Score:2)
Your model would suggest poor people have fewer children than rich people...
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https://www.tylervigen.com/spu... [tylervigen.com]
Who can think of other things that those countries have in common? Maybe some history in tech manufacturing?
Shame on you for upvoting this, Slashdot.
Robots dont work (Score:2, Interesting)
Robots are at least 75 to 100 years away from taking away most repetitive manual labor factory jobs. Robots lack dexterity and they are too hard to program.
It was: "Global Robot Density Doubles in 7 years" (Score:2)