One of 10 Women Shaping the Future of Robotics in 2025
Apr 14, 2025 — Despite the growing number of women in China’s scientific community, now at around 40 million, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions, accounting for only 10 percent.
Feb 19, 2025 — For decades, technology has reshaped job markets throughout the world, often strengthening the relative position of the highly educated and skilled and those performing non-routine tasks.
Global market development in vacuum cleaning robots from 2001 to today
Jan 23, 2025 — With more than 2 million units sold alone in 2023, floor cleaning robots account for close to 57% of domestic service robots and remain a major pillar of domestic service robots. Today, we see a fully mature market for domestic floor cleaning robots. This has not always been like that…
Jan 15, 2025 — In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, sustainability has emerged as a crucial directive for manufacturing industries worldwide. One of the most transformative strategies to achieve this goal is the incorporation of automated product disassembly into the design process.
Jan 15, 2025 — It is an exciting time for mobile robotics. Global events, technological advancements, and changing market conditions are increasingly influencing our industry. The growing labor shortage on the customer side further drives the topic of automation, and thus mobile robotics.
Dec 03, 2024 — Service robotics is an industry on the move. One trend are bipedal robots or humanoids with gigantic investments in the last months. Whether these robots will be a game changer is still open and so far, no sales could be observed.
Challenges, Innovations, and Long-Term Growth Outlook
Nov 26, 2024 — Automation has become the cornerstone of the manufacturing industry. However, the potential is far from exhausting. Industries that already have a high degree of automation as well as those that have had little experience so far, are intensifying their work on automating their processes.
One of 10 Women Shaping the Future of Robotics in 2024
Oct 24, 2024 — Michelle Frumkin's passion for robotics has allowed her to combine her entrepreneurial mindset with science, bringing innovation to the forefront of this fast-moving industry. Working at 3M has given her the chance to balance creativity and business while being a parent, demonstrating that women can thrive in male-dominated fields like robotics without sacrificing their personal goals.
Events
International Robot Safety Conference
November 03- November 05, 2025
ISR Asia 2025
November 05- November 06, 2025
58th International Symposium on Robotics
RobotWorld 2025
November 05- November 08, 2025
20th Anniversary in Seoul
iREX 2025
December 03- December 06, 2025
International Robot Exhibition
Trade shows for State-of-the-art robots and robot-related technology, and component technologies
Automate 2026
June 22- June 25, 2026
The latest in robotics, machine vision, AI, motion control, and more
World Robotics - Industrial Robots: Global Robot Demand in Factories Doubles Over 10 Years
The new World Robotics 2025 statistics on industrial robots showed 542,000 robots installed in 2024 - more than double the number 10 years ago. Annual installations topped 500,000 units for the fourth straight year. Asia accounted for 74% of new deployments in 2024, compared with 16% in Europe and 9% in the Americas.
World Robotics - Service Robots See Global Growth Boom
In 2024, worldwide sales of professional service robots grew by 9%, medical robots by 91%, and service robots for consumer use by 11%. More than 199,000 units for professional service robots and close to 16,700 units of medical robots sold were registered by the IFR Statistical Department.
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