International Federation of Robotics
Robotics continues to gain ground
Good news from the robotics industry: The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) announced new record figures for the 2015 financial year at Automatica: 248,000 units sold represent an increase of 12% compared to the previous year.
Back in April, the IFR announced the sales figures for 2015 - with a new record result. The association revised these figures upwards again in the course of Automatica. There is no end in sight to the growth trend: by 2018, 2.3 million units will be working in factories worldwide - more than twice as many as in 2009 (1.0 million). The image gallery below provides an overview of the updated figures and breaks them down by region and sector:
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