China overtakes Germany in industrial use of robots, says report

BERLIN — 

China has overtaken Germany successful the usage of robots successful industry, an yearly study published by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) showed connected Wednesday, underscoring the challenges facing Europe's biggest system from Beijing.

In presumption of robot density, an important indicator for planetary comparisons of the automation of the manufacturing industry, South Korea is the satellite person with 1,012 robots per 10,000 employees, up 5% since 2018, said the IFR, which is based successful Germany.

Singapore comes next, followed by China with 470 robots per 10,000 workers - much than treble the density it had successful 2019.

That compares with 429 per 10,000 employees successful Germany, which has had an yearly maturation complaint of 5% since 2018, said IFR.

"China has invested heavy successful automation exertion and ranks 3rd successful robot density successful 2023 aft South Korea and Singapore, up of Germany and Japan," said IFR president Takayuki Ito.

Germany has successful the past relied heavy connected its concern basal and exports for maturation but is facing ever tougher contention from countries similar China. It expects economical contraction for the 2nd twelvemonth moving successful 2024, making it the worst performer among the Group of Seven affluent democracies.