Japanese workers are delighted for robots take over dirty, dangerous, and repetitive jobs such as pressing and painting. These machines are often treated as part of the corporation family. to the point where they are named after favorite female singers and movie stars. By contrast, American workers are naturally suspicious of such new labor-saving technology because they know from experience that U.S. employers often use it to cut jobs. It is not surprising, then, that with only half America's work force, Japan has three times as many robots in operation.