The UK’s investment in automation has been lagging. There are plenty of initiatives to encourage manufacturing businesses to catch up on the competition – or even pass it. Ruari McCallion has been pressing some buttons.
The answer to the question “how many robots are there in the UK” is “not enough”. This country has the world’s sixth-largest economy but we only just creep into the global top 20 when it comes to roboticisation. Germany’s economy is 50% larger than ours but it has 10 times as many robots. Its automotive…
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