Robot installations in Asia are expected to exceed the 300,000-unit mark and add 15% to the previous year’s result. Installations in Europe are expected to grow by 8% to almost 73,000 units. “Installations in North America are expected to increase by 17% to almost 43,000 units. “Global robot installations are expected to rebound strongly and grow by 13% to 435,000 units in 2021, thus exceeding the record level achieved in 2018,” reports Milton Guerry. The North American economy started to recover in the second half of 2020, and Europe followed suit a little later.” “Order intake and production in the Chinese manufacturing industry began surging in the second quarter of 2020.
“The economies in North America, Asia and Europe did not experience their Covid-19 low point at the same time,” says Milton Guerry, President of the International Federation of Robotics. This is the third most successful year in history for the robotics industry, following 20. This trend was dominated by the positive market developments in China, compensating the contractions of other markets. Sales of new robots grew slightly at 0.5% despite the global pandemic, with 384,000 units shipped globally in 2020.
Frankfurt, The World Robotics 2021 Industrial Robots report shows a record of 3 million industrial robots operating in factories around the world – an increase of 10%.
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