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Re:So, Where Are All Those Robots? by flyinglizard on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:24AM (#14486059)
Good luck buying an industrial robot right now. Anecdotal maybe, but from my personal experience all top 3 players are experiencing supply shortages due to strong demand.
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Re:So, Where Are All Those Robots? by bad_alloc on Monday June 05, 2017 @09:13AM (#14487334)
Can confirm. We've been waiting half a year for one arm. It's not only production, training courses are packed and support technicians are hard to get hold of.
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Re:So, Where Are All Those Robots? by Agathos on Monday June 05, 2017 @07:56AM (#14486945)
Who are the top three?
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Re:So, Where Are All Those Robots? by gridit on Monday June 05, 2017 @08:59AM (#14487256)
I was curious too and found this list (sorry about the parent site):

https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2015/07/21/top-8-indus...

1. Fanuc

2. Yaskawa

3. ABB

4. Kawasaki

The first one mostly has openings in Michigan, concerning machine vision and embedded NN -- from what I can tell.

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Re:So, Where Are All Those Robots? by bamboozled on Monday June 05, 2017 @05:44AM (#14486323)
Well, how about that for irony.
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