China will have more robots operating in
its production plants by 2017 than any other country as it cranks up
automation of its car and electronics factories, the International
Federation of Robotics (IFR) said on Thursday.
Already the biggest market in the $9.5
billion global robot trade -- or $29 billion including associated
software, peripherals and systems engineering -- China lags far behind
its more industrialised peers in terms of robot density.
China has just 30 robots per 10,000
workers employed in manufacturing industries, compared with 437 in South
Korea, 323 in Japan, 282 in Germany and 152 in the United States.
But a race by carmakers to build plants
in China along with wage inflation that has eroded the competitiveness
of Chinese labour will push the operational stock of industrial robots
to more than double to 428,000 by 2017, the IFR estimates.
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