--FILE--robot de soudure de pièces d'armes à une usine automobile de Dongfeng Peugeot Citroën Automobile Co., Ltd. à Wuhan, province du Hubei en Chine centrale, 24
--FILE--Robot arms weld car parts at an auto plant of Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile Co., Ltd. in Wuhan city, central China's Hubei province, 24 September 2014. China will have more robots operating in its production plants by 2017 than any other country as it cranks up automation of its car and electronics factories, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) said on Thursday (5 February 2015). Already the biggest market in the $9.5 billion global robot trade, or $29 billion including associated software, peripherals and systems engineering, China lags far behind its more industrialized peers in terms of robot density. China has just 30 robots per 10, 000 workers employed in manufacturing industries, compared with 437 in South Korea, 323 in Japan, 282 in Germany and 152 in the United States. But a race by carmakers to build plants in China along with wage inflation that has eroded the competitiveness of Chinese labour will push the operational stock of industrial robots to more than double to 428, 000 by 2017, the IFR estimates.
