The World Robotics 2021 Industrial Robots report shows a record of three million industrial robots operating in factories around the world – an increase of 10%. Sales of new robots grew slightly at 0.5% despite the global pandemic, with 384,000 units shipped globally in 2020.
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Robot mobility is booming worldwide: Unit sales of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) in the logistics sector e.g., will increase by 31% between 2020 and 2023 annually. At the same time, the use of AMRs in public environments will also go up rapidly – IFR predicts unit sales will grow by 40% per year worldwide.
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The new World Robotics 2020 Industrial Robots report shows a record of 2.7 million industrial robots operating in factories around the world – an increase of 12%. Sales of new robots remain on a high level with 373,000 units shipped globally in 2019. This is 12% less compared to 2018, but still the 3rd highest sales volume ever recorded.
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From 2020 to 2022 almost 2 million new units of industrial robots are expected to be installed in factories around the world.
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Sales of service robots for professional use has increased by 32% to $9.2 billion. Logistic systems such as AGVs represent the largest fraction in the professional service robot market (41% of all units sold). The second largest category is inspection and maintenance robots (39% of all units sold). These two segments account for 80% of total market share.
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The World Robotics Report shows that a new record high of 381,000 units were shipped globally in 2017 – an increase of 30 percent compared to the previous year.
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Global sales of industrial robots reached the new record of 380,550 units in 2017 – an increase of 29 percent compared to the previous year (2016: 294,300 units).
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The automation of production is accelerating around the world: 74 robot units per 10,000 employees is the new average of global robot density in the manufacturing industries.
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