German robotics and automationVDMA announces details of record sales
Last year, the German robotics and automation industry posted record sales - this was announced by the VDMA at the beginning of June 2016. The association has now broken down its figures further at Automatica 2016.
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... will continue to develop very dynamically in the coming years, according to IFR forecasts: 2.3 billion industrial robots are expected to be installed in the world's factories by 2018 - this corresponds to an average annual growth in the number of robots of 12% (2016-2018).
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