Robot nation

摘要

In today's highly competitive world markets the industrialising economies are growing fast to meet their own market demand. At the same time they are pulling manufacturing away from the traditional manufacturing countries in Europe and the US. Manufacturing in the UK, still the sixth largest in the world, is coming under increasing pressure not only from lower-cost competitors but also from competitors' in the developed world that have invested more in their manufacturing sectors' productive capacity to sharpen their competitiveness.