FRANKFURT — There was a touch of schadenfreude in the most recent earnings report issued by Kuka, a company based in the Bavarian city of Augsburg whose orange industrial robots are a common site on auto assembly lines around the world. Kuka said last month that its sales had bounced back to precrisis levels — and then some. By contrast, sales at its Japanese rivals were still one-third below where they had stood in early 2008, before the global downturn slammed the machinery...
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