Oddly, 2024 new industrial robot numbers dropped for each of the EU, Japan and the US, too from the year before. Robot manufacturing means cheaper goods, and the EU, Japan & the US are already feeling the crunch. They don't seem to have any answer to the flood of good quality cheap electric vehicles that have made China the world's biggest car maker. These pressures are only going to get worse and worse.
2024 New Industrial Robots
290,000 - China
86,000 - EU
43,000 - Japan
34,000 - US
Chinese factories keep up robot roll-out despite global decline