Since 2010, the automotive industry –the most important customer of industrial robots– considerably increased investments in industrial robots worldwide. After two years of single …

About 70% of the total robot sales in 2012 went to Japan, China, the United States, Korea and Germany. In 2012, about 28,100 industrial robots were shipped to the Americas, 7% more …

Firstly, we describe the historic evolution and organizational structure of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), which collects data on the international distribution of industrial …

Up to and including 2000, Japan consistently reported data, which included both multipurpose industrial robots and dedicated industrial robots (see section I.2 for definitions), while other …

+10% Source: World Robotics 2024 1,000 units Annual installations of industrial robots World Annual installations exceeded 500,000 units for the third consecutive year IFR Executive …

Chapter 2 analyzes the worldwide spread of industrial robots. It contains summary tables of the world robot stock and the global robot supply by country, by application, or by industry.

After the strong increase of 132% in 2010, sales of industrial robots again rose, by 27%, to a new peak of about 88,700 units in 2011 and decreased in 2012 to 84,645 units.

Staff shortages are a key driver for companies to use robots designed for trained professionals. At the same time, the growing elderly population is increasing demand for medical robots. These …

It is estimated that the worldwide stock of operational industrial robots will increase from about 1,828,000 units at the end of 2016 to 3,053,000 units at the end of 2020, representing an …

In 2017, worldwide shipments of industrial robots were about 387,000 units. Compared to 2016, that is a difference of 294,000 units. The growth of robotic automation is primarily driven by the …