With 370,000 industrial workers, Japan has the most robots in the world. But even these tireless workers are not immune to the recession. A 40 percent decline in production in Japanese factories means many robots are dormant, while orders for new robots have fallen by almost 60 percent.
The upside (at least if you’re not a robot)? Employers are eliminating robot positions before laying off human workers.
(Source: Popular Science and The New York Times)
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