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Today I heard that prices of industrial robots have halved during the past few years. This has, naturally, led to an increased use of robots in manufacturing in Norway. But the interesting thing was that opposite to common belief, these robots actually help protect local jobs. Local/regional companies no longer have to ship out their work to the far-east, instead they can use their qualified local work-force together with low-cost robots.

Here at the office we’ve had a little robot for the past couple of years, that automates DVD duplication and printing. Fun to watch. And a while ago I was shooting (i.e. filming) in a large aluminum plant. At the push of a button, about 10 huge robots started moving in perfect synchronization. Awesome sight that was.