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New industrial robots installed annually (img.semafor.com)
submitted 4 days ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/engineering@sh.itjust.works
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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

China is building Megatron

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Surely this would be more readable if sorted the other way.

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'd love to know the breakdown of how these robots are being used.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, China is king of lying with statistics.

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Well, there IS that. Any motorized axis could be considered a "robot".