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China is buying far more industrial robots than anyone, so I would expect its safety to be rising rapidly.(Source: UN report[0] released October 2016)[1] The tw
by contingencies 10y ago
China is buying far more industrial robots than anyone, so I would expect its safety to be rising rapidly.(Source: UN report[0] released October 2016)[1] The two large factories I visited in Dongguan last week were extremely well automated already.
[0] http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/presspb2016d6_en.pd.. http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/presspb2016d6_en.pd.... (page 3, citing UNCTAD secretariat calculations, based on International Federation of Robotics, 2015, World Robotics 2015: Industrial Robots, available at http://www.ifr.org/industrial-robots/statistics/ http://www.ifr.org/industrial-robots/statistics/ (accessed 19 October 2016))
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12991293 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12991293