Robots marched on in 2021, with record orders by North American firms


FILE PHOTO: Robot technician Justin McPhail prepares a manufacturing robot for shipping to a customer in a FANUC American facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan, U.S. August 11, 2021. Picture taken August 11, 2021. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo

(Reuters) - More robots joined the U.S. workforce last year than ever before, taking on jobs from plucking bottles and cans off conveyor belts at trash recycling plants to putting small consumer goods into cardboard boxes at e-commerce warehouses.

It looks like still more robots will come aboard in 2022.

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