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)
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/12/yglesias-bait/207466/
