There are now 1 million industrial robots toiling around the world, says IEEE Spectrum, with Japan having the highest density.
Japan has 295 robots for every 10,000 manufacturing workers — a robot density almost 10 times the world average and nearly twice that of Singapore (169), South Korea (164), and Germany (163). The United States is ranked 9th, world-wide with a density of 86 per 10,000 manufacturing workers.
IEEE Spectrum computed the robot density for 67 nations, using data from the International Federation of Robotics and the International Labour Organization.
By 2011, the world’s industrial robot population is expected to rise to 1.2 million.
