1. Japan
Score – 20
At the top of our list of 8 countries that produce the most robots in the world, we find none other than Japan, the country you were expecting to see here ever since you started reading this article .That’s because Japan in well known for automating right about everything, so there’s really no surprise that it’s going to lead the charts when it comes to industrial robots.
According to 2012 data from the IFR Japan had 310,508 industrial robots in its factories, a number that has grown exponentially since then. So much it has grown that nowadays, the IFR notes there are 339 industrial robots for every 10,000 people employed in manufacturing, which surely means there are a lot of people that are no longer getting jobs in this industry.
Japan also leads the list of the world’s largest exporters of industrial robots with a value of $1.4 billion. That’s 34.5% of the 2015 total of industrial robots exports at a global level.
That being said, the numbers are only going to grow going forward, with many more countries adding industrial robots to their factories, looking to increase production and minimize risks. It’s going to be a long way to go and human workers aren’t going to disappear from factories because they’re still much needed, but certainly there’s going to be less of them in future decades.
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