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BUDDY, CAN YOU SPARE AN ERG? Robot Unemployment in Japan: ?Japan?s legions of robots, the world

By Glenn Reynolds

BUDDY, CAN YOU SPARE AN ERG? Robot Unemployment in Japan: “Japan?s legions of robots, the world?s largest fleet of mechanized workers, are being idled as the country suffers its deepest recession in more than a generation as consumers worldwide cut spending on cars and gadgets . . . They could be out of work for a long time. Japanese industrial production has plummeted almost 40 percent and with it, the demand for robots.”

UPDATE: Some readers think this should have been “Buddy, can you spare a dyne?” But although that rhymes, a dyne is a unit of force, not energy, so . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).