Robot Density & Job Displacement Simulator (2D)

Robot density — installed industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers — is the actual metric the International Federation of Robotics uses to compare countries, from South Korea's 1,000 down to the USA's 274. This 2D top-down simulator turns that single number into a working factory floor: a saturating substitution model converts density into an automation share, then into an output multiplier, a share of jobs directly displaced, and a smaller share of new technician roles created to run the robots. Drag the density slider or pick a real country preset, tune how aggressively automation substitutes for labor versus complementing it, or press play to watch density climb along a logistic adoption curve from 2015 to 2035 while a 144-station grid re-mixes itself between robot arms and human workers and a synced strip chart traces the curve underneath. Drag the floor to pan and scroll to zoom into any row of stations.