Components mounted on a circuit board by robotic chip mounter are seen at Panasonic Factory Solutions Co. in Showa town, Yamanashi prefecture, April 19, 2013. As the breakneck growth in the global smartphone market eases, the mostly Japanese companies that make the robots that build the phones are looking to automakers to take up the slack. Robotics remains a strength in a Japanese electronics industry that has been hammered by competition from rivals in South Korea and Taiwan. Panasonic Corp, Hitachi High-Technologies, Yamaha Motor Co, Fuji Machine Manufacturing and JUKI Corp together make eight of every 10 component mounting robots. Picture taken April 19, 2013. REUTERS/Reiji Murai (JAPAN - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)