Bot Colony

Harbour

Jeff Philips has to track down an item that the spy had shipped into the island [Port Call 2, #85]

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Sweatshop workers

Nakagawa Corporation got its first major contract from China, to replace Chinese needletrade workers with robots. [Nakagawa Corp, section iii, Prologue] (Sweatshop wprkers by Henry Fong)

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Sweatshop replacements

Nakagawa's robots crated in containers on their way to China. (Detail of Sweatshop worker replacements by Henry Fong, one-eye robot model by Snezhan Bodurov).

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Robots to China

Container with robots ready to be loaded on a ship, in the Agrihan Harbour.

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Needltrade robot contract

The March 14, 2010 Mainichi Shinbun announcement of the $500,000,000 contract from China for needletrade robots. (Zoom in of Maicho Shinbun March 2010 from Section 1).