Will India be left behind in new Industrial revolution?

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This map-like infographic from Bloomberg shows the ratio of industrial robots to human workers by country and region.

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Larger boxes mean more robots per human factory worker. By this measure, four Asian countries stand out for their highly automated industries: Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Within Europe, Germany leads. The US has proportionally more robots than Canada, and the machines barely have a toehold in South America. The main point here is who’s missing: China has barely begun to automate. This can’t persist if Beijing wants to retain its export volumes. Chinese companies are now in a headlong rush to install industrial automation technologies, and the trend will likely accelerate .

what about India?

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