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On the outskirts of the South Korean city of Busan, in what looks like one more ship in a common industrial estate, a state-of-the-art factory hides. The outside does not give clues of what happens inside. There, about thirty robots move their arms as if an auto factory were, and they work without stopping to the compass that marks an algorithm. But in that space they do not make cars of the last generation, nor great industrial equipments. What…