Jan 12, 2009

World Robot Takeover


Got it from IEEE Spectrum There are now 1 million industrial robots toiling around the world, and Japan is where they’re the thickest on the ground. It has 295 of these electromechanical marvels for every 10 000 manufacturing workers—a robot density almost 10 times the world average and nearly twice that of Singapore (169), South Korea (164), and Germany (163). By 2011, the world’s industrial robot population is expected to rise to 1.2 million. Which countries these new robots will call home—and how the machine-to-human balance will change—remains to be seen. Robots are fast on their way to taking over the human race. Remember the movie "I Robot ?? Think about it :) :)

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