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Sales of cobots rose by 11% in 2019 - in complete contrast to the trend for traditional industrial robots. As more and more manufacturers are offering collaborative robots and the range of applications is expanding at the same time, the market share rose to 4.8% in 2019. Nevertheless, this market is still in its infancy: of the 373,000 industrial robots sold to date, only around 18,000 units are cobots.