China Overtakes Germany and Japan In Robot Density (reuters.com) 35
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.
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Compared to what the US?
The US is a shithole with fewer robots.
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.
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I used to visit China and you are right. China can be a very pleasant place to live, especially for a foreign national from any Western style democracy that most upper echelon Chinese nationals aspire to immigrate to.
Behind the gleaming high rises, the impressive high speed rail system, is the reality that all Chinese nationals are forced to live in an authoritarian government with every little labor, environmental, religious, and basic human rights protection. AND, they can neither peacefully organize n
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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Does robot density also correlate with sex dolls density in each country?
No. Korea has the most robots and the fewest children, but sex dolls were illegal there until 2022.
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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
Re:Fewer babies = More robots (Score:4, Informative)
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That is not the robots, we are talking about.
It is about industrial robots in manufacturing.
Or do you really think it is only roughly 430 automatic vacuum machines per 10,000 people ( or 7000 households)???
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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Re: Fewer babies = More robots (Score:2)
My apologies, I misread the comment I was replying to. You are absolutely correct.
Now if you will excuse me I've got to get this egg off my face.
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You have his model backwards. The worse the chances of survival, the more things suck for the parents, the more kids.
It's like the formula might be along the lines of x*(1/survival chance)^2 kids on average.
Survival chance being expressed as a decimal like 0.98.
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The prevalence of robots probably depends most on how many robotics companies that country has. Japan has a had a lot of them for a very long time, so they are more common in things like manufacturing, and that knowledge and experience filters down to consumer products as well.
The reason China is shooting up the list is that they have huge numbers of robotics companies and are developing the technology extremely fast. Some of them are world leading too. There was a story recently about setting a speed recor
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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.
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What if ... it is a conspiracy by the robots!
More robots = fewer babies.
The robot uprising has begun! OMG!
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.
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Robots in Industrial assembly lines are made for a specific purpose. E.g putting a battery into an EV.
There is not much to program.
And they do not need any dexterity beyond that specific task.
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Robots have already taken over most of the repetitive jobs. At least specific purpose robots like the ones that do a set of six welds to every frame that passes through. Or screwing a set of bolts or screws in.
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Oh, absolutely. We don't have any robots that do repetitive manual labour jobs, and we won't for a long time. We certainly haven't had them for 70 years, much less 250. BTW, whatever you do, don't google "CNC" or "how it's made."
It was: "Global Robot Density Doubles in 7 years" (Score:2)
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Double density (Score:2)
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Well, excerpt for Marvin. He has the brain the size of a planet, after all.
And the US? (Score:2)
According to Google, the US is at about 295 for robot density. In case anyone else was wondering.