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Yglesias Bait

By The Daily Dish
Dec 15 2008, 4:53 AM ET

The robot threat grows:

There are now 1 million industrial robots toiling around the world, and Japan is where they're the thickest on the ground. It has 295 of these electromechanical marvels for every 10000 manufacturing workers -- a robot density almost 10 times the world average and nearly twice that of Singapore (169), South Korea (164), and Germany (163).

(Hat tip: Kottke)



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