RE: American Companies Ordered Over 29,000 Robots This Year

I suspect that they are hung up on the definition of what is a robot.

Is a robotic arm in an assembly plant a robot?

An ATM is a machine that counts money. There's about a half million ATMs.

The self-check out stands at grocery stores perform the manual task of tallying up grocery purchases. I was looking at the paving machine that is resurfacing a local freeway. One machine does most of the tasks associated with laying pavement.

The robotic revolution is happening with things that don't really look like robots.