Nigel Smith is manging director of industrial robot distributor TM Robotics. Nigel Smith looks at who is leading the way in the race for automated production. Statistics from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) prove that the number of industrial robots used in production is increasing. However, three-quarters of total robot sales are currently attributed to just five countries - China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, the United States and Germany.
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