Factory floors used to be loud with human voices. Not anymore. Instead, more and more factories have a monotonous, almost hypnotic hum. It’s the sound of a million arms that never tire. We’re talking, of course, about robots. They never sleep, never complain, and don’t make mistakes. This is the new reality in factories across the world. But in China, it’s moving faster and on a grander scale than anything the world has ever seen.
According to a new report, China has built a robotic workforce that outnumbers the rest of the planet combined.
The report comes from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), a global trade group that tracks the industry. According to the report, Chinese factories installed nearly 300,000 new industrial robots last year alone. To put that in perspective, the United States, the world’s largest economy, installed a mere 34,000. For every single new robot that powered up on an American assembly line, China switched on almost nine.
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