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Summary - OUTLOOK on World Robotics Report 2019 by IFR

Steven Wyatt, IFR Vice President, presented preview by regions, markets and key challenges

Apr 10, 2019 Chicago The preliminary statistics of the World Robotics Report shows that a new record high of 384,000 units were shipped globally in 2018 – an increase of one percent compared to the previous year. This means that the annual sales volume of industrial robots increased for the sixth time in a row (2013-2018) – but only just.

Please watch Steven Wyatt´s outlook video from the AUTOMATE 2019 in Chicago

Summary - OUTLOOK on World Robotics Report 2019 by IFR - Apr 10, 2019
US robot density now more than double that of China - Apr 03, 2019
India´s robot sales surged by 30 percent - Jan 22, 2019
Global industrial robot sales doubled over the past five years - Oct 18, 2018
Service robots – global sales value up 39 percent - Oct 18, 2018
President’s Report - Oct 18, 2018
World’s most important robotics award goes to IFR General Secretary Gudrun Litzenberger - Jul 06, 2018
Robot Award “IERA” 2018 goes to the USA, Germany and the Netherlands - Jul 06, 2018
Industrial robot sales increase worldwide by 31 percent - Jun 20, 2018
Robots double worldwide by 2020 - May 30, 2018
Robots create jobs – new research - Apr 19, 2018

Press Photos

Wire Cutting

A FANUC Robot LR Mate 200iD is loading a WireCut EDM machine

Collaborative Robot

YUMI is ABB's collaborative robot on the market

Electronics industry

Robots at assembly line in the electronics industry

Automotive welding

Robots welding car chassis in the automotive industry

Automotive welding

Robots welding parts in the automotive industry

UR5 - A highly flexible robot arm

Trelleborg uses UR5 robots (payload 5kg) to carry out machine tending mainly on CNC machines

UR3 - ultra-flexible table-top robot

MARKA uses UR3 robots (payload 3kg) to screw drive the caps on its own-brand consumer goods. Accuracy and reliability were the crucial factors for the investment.

Cheese Handling

Cutting and Handling of Cheese

Automotive

Automotives - Automation

Programming

Using the teach pendant for programming, or touch up of previously made offline programs.

Printing

MOTOMAN dual arm robot in a co‐worker robot cell. The robot separates, airs and moves stacks of printed paper sheets after the printing process.

Labrobot

The MOTOMAN dual arm robot in a biomedical cell where it performs all the necessary tasks in a laboratory environment.

Cleanfix

Cleanfix - RA 660 - ANT driven cleaning a floor

ANT driven AGV

AGV Scandinavia - ANT driven forklift

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