Industrial Robots Global Study: China on the rise

03 March 2015

By 2017, more industrial robots will be operating in China's production plants than in the European Union or North America. Operating unit numbers there will double from today's 200,000 to more than 400,000. So says the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) in its 2014 World Robot Statistics.
China is already the world's largest market in the sale of industrial robots. But this merely marks the first step in a fast game of catch-up. Given China's still very low robotic density, the future market dimensions are palpably clear: To date, China only has 30 industrial robots per 10,000 employees in manufacturing industries (Press release IFR, 28 January 2015).
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