THE WORLD OF ROBOTICS

THE AUTOMATION INDUSTRY IS BOOMING, AND ROBOTICS MANUFACTURERS ARE PUSHING FORWARD WITH PIONEERING DEVELOPMENTS. HYBRID ROBOTS, COBOTS, DUAL-ARM ROBOTS AS WELL AS NEW FOUR- AND SIX-AXIS KINEMATICS ARE PAVING THE WAY FOR SMART PRODUCTION CONCEPTS.

THE WORLD ROBOTICS REPORT 2017 PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ROBOTICS (IFR) SPEAKS A CLEAR LANGUAGE: WITH AN AVERAGE ROBOT DENSITY OF 74 UNITS PER 10,000 EMPLOYEES (2015: 66 UNITS), THE GLOBAL AVERAGE IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY HAS REACHED A NEW RECORD. IN AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON, EUROPE IS IN THE LEAD WITH 99 UNITS, FOLLOWED BY AMERICA WITH 84 AND ASIA WITH 63. GERMANY HAS THIRD PLACE BEHIND SOUTH KOREA (ALSO ROBOT MANUFACTURERS) AND SINGAPORE WITH 309 UNITS IN RANKING THE HIGHEST AUTOMATED COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.