Asian Robots

The top three countries for robot density (measured as number of industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers) are all Asian - Japan (an eye popping 295), Singapore (169) and South Korea (164).

But when the regional averages are taken into consideration, Asia/Pacific falls to third place (27) behind Europe (50) and the Americas (31). This suggests that the two largest Asian countries, China and India, are way behind the curve.

When I dug a little deeper, I found 2008 numbers showing India and China significantly increased. China increased 14% from 2006 to 2007, while the industrial robot count increased by 11% in India.

See http://www.worldrobotics.org/downloads/2008_executive_summary.pdf for the full report.


http://spectrum.ieee.org/print/7012