Industrial robots in the US are being deployed exactly where you’d expect

More than half of America’s industrial robot population is concentrated in just 10 states in the Midwest and South. This is according to a new report, published by the Brookings Institute, which maps the distribution of these machines in the US. The report defines industrial robots as “automatically controlled, reprogrammable machines,” and estimate that the US is home to 233,305 of them — engaged in tasks from welding cars to processing poultry.The report uses data from