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Japan’s Robot Duopoly
Fanuc and Yaskawa quietly run the world's factories — and they're racing to automate the labour the planet no longer has
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Fanuc and Yaskawa quietly run the world's factories — and they're racing to automate the labour the planet no longer has
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In a windowless room at a Fanuc factory in Yamanashi Prefecture, a row of robotic arms assembles components with sub-millimeter precision. Nothing…
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From factory floors to nursing homes, Japan's robots are everywhere