Robotics is the Barometer of Automation

By Stefan Brill

For every 10,000 employees in the processing sector, there are:

310 robots in Japan
234 robots in Germany
185 robots in South Korea
116 robots in both Italy and the USA
115 robots in Sweden

For every 10,000 employees in the automobile sector, there are:

2,100 robots in Japan
1,772 robots in Italy
1,439 robots in Germany
997 robots in the USA
794 robots in Great Britain
763 robots in Spain
600 robots in Sweden

Figures: VDMA/IFR 2008