There are 1 million industrial robots around the world (as of Dec 2008), and Japan has the highest density with 295 robots for every 10,000 manufacturing workers.
Singapore and Korea are second and third respectively on the chart, but significantly behind Japan in numbers [illustration by Mike Vella; more on IEEE]
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“Japan has highest industrial robot density”
why am i not surprised? =P
I doubt anyone would be surprised that Japan is on top… I was a bit surprised though, that Singapore actually came second on the chart.
you should visit singapore and see. labor cost so high here, and population low… we need a lot of machines and robots to replace the human labor.