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Japan Times reports Robots Leave Behind Chinese Factory Workers According to the International Federation of Robotics, an association of academic and business robotics organizations, China bought approximately 56,000 of the 227,000 industrial robots purchased worldwide in 2014 — a 54 percent increase on 2013. And in all likelihood, China is just getting started
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Philly Fed Positive, but New Orders Stall, Backlog of Orders Contracts, Prices Contract; Why the Optimism? As typical, there is not much to cheer about in the latest Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Survey . The index is hovering above zero where it has been for months
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