IS THIS The Age of the Robot?(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)

NOT TOO LONG AGO THERE WERE QUESTIONS, DOUBTS EVEN, ABOUT THE APPROPRIATENESS OF ROBOTS AND ROBOTICS IN MANUFACTURING -- AT LEAST IN SOME AREAS OF MANUFACTURING.

While the automatic and robotic approach has been used pervasively in the process industries, until around a decade ago, there were serious reservations about the use of robots in the discrete end of the manufacturing business. Automotive, for example, was put on the defensive for years by the famous Hamtramck, Michigan, incidents on car part paint lines where the robots were painting each other more than the