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    REVERENCE FOR ROBOTS: JAPANESE WORKERS TREASURE AUTOMATION

    Aug 18, 2017 3 minutes

    Thousands upon thousands of cans are filled with beer, capped and washed, wrapped into six-packs, and boxed at dizzying speeds - 1,500 a minute, to be exact - on humming conveyor belts that zip and wind in a sprawling factory near Tokyo.

    Nary a soul is in sight in this picture-perfect image of Japanese automation.

    The machines do all the heavy lifting at this plant run by Asahi Breweries, Japan’s

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