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Robotic response

The Boston Consulting Group’s Centre for Sensing & Mining the Future has called the rise of robotics a megatrend that is transforming the economics of manufacturing and reshaping the business landscape. The size of this coming wave of robotics, it says, is staggering, with spending on robots worldwide expected to jump from just over US$15 billion in 2010 to about $67 billion by 2025.

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“Driving this growth is a convergence of falling prices and performance improvements,” BCG says. “The cost of high-quality robots and components is dropping rapidly, while CPUs are getting faster, and...

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