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Reverence For Robots: Japanese Workers Treasure Automation
In this Monday, May 29, 2017 photo, an Asahi Breweries employee works on the production line at a factory in Moriya near Tokyo. Japan is ahead of the U.S. and Europe in introducing robots to the workplace, but that has not resulted in the job reductions i
Credit: AP Photo/Koji Sasahara
Thousands upon thousands of cans are filled with beer, capped and washed, wrapped into six-packs, and boxed at dizzying speeds—1,500 a minute, to be exact—on humming conveyor belts that zip and wind in a sprawling factory near Tokyo.
From The Associated Press
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