What's the difference between:
- ロボット を つくって いる かいしゃ に はいりました。 and
- ロボット を つくる かいしゃ に はいりました。
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Do you have any ideas what the difference would be? What have you checked already about these two forms?– LeeboCommented Jul 13 at 8:17
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I have no idea what the difference could be. I was trying to solve a problem. It was - ロボト を ( ? ) かいしゃ に はいりました。At first, I thought it would be つくって いる. But then I thought つくる also could be an answer. So if those two forms are grammatically correct then those two have slightly different meanings.– Md Tarek Abdullah SakibCommented Jul 13 at 9:18
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I assume you already know the basics of the progressive form (-ている form).
- ロボットを作っている会社に入りました。
- ロボットを作る会社に入りました。
If you joined an existing company that was already actively manufacturing or developing robots, you can use both sentences. Sentence 1 sounds slightly more conversational and Sentence 2 sounds slightly more bookish, but the difference is small.
However, if you entered a (new) company that will develop robots in the future, the progressive form is inappropriate, so you must use Sentence 2.
ロボットを作る会社に入りました would be the more natural of the two. 作る会社 means "a company that makes...", whereas 作っている会社 means "a company that is making...", which sounds a bit less natural. It implies that the company is making a robot right now at this very instant, rather than it generally producing robots currently.
A verb like 開発する（かいはつする） "To cause development" would sound more natural in the ～ている form here. 開発している会社 "a company that is developing robots". This would indicate that they haven't made robots yet, but are, in this instant, developing them.
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作っている会社 means "a company that is making...", which sounds a bit less natural. It implies that the company is making a robot right now at this very instant-- でも「〇〇はXXを作っている会社です。」ってフツーに言いますし、ググってもいっぱいヒットしますよね。また、この質問でも、 japanese.stackexchange.com/q/105054/9831 「ワンさんが働いている病院」で、不自然ではないですよね。– chocolate ♦Commented Jul 14 at 1:47