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How China’s Automation
Surgeis Redefining
Global Manufacturing
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2 days ago
Paulina Szyzdek
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In 2024 irstalled 30O,000 robots
Towards more
the rest of the world’s installations combined (!!!)
and rearly 1Ox the 34,000 robots installed in the
US the same year!
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China
United States
New Robot Installations (2024)
295,000
34,200
Global Share of Installations (2024)
5496
6.39
Operational Robot Stock
>2,000,000
~400,000
Robot Density (2023)
470 per 10,000 employees
295 per 10,000 ernployees
Source: International Federation of Robotics; The New York Times [1, 2, 3]
In reality, the United States and Europe were planning to replace manufacturing with automation, but even automation was the largest in China. Last year, China alone installed robots at 54% of the world, exceeding the entire world. That’s why the manufacturing industry is said to be competitive even though India’s salary is three times higher.