Robot Sales Continue to Rise: Up 10% in 2016

As tech­nol­o­gy con­tin­ues to advance, it enables automa­tion to become more intel­li­gent and afford­able. This helps robot­ics con­tin­ue to spread their automa­tion love out­side of fac­to­ry floors. Automa­tion can now be found in a vari­ety of places such as the food and con­sumer goods indus­tries and even small busi­ness­es. There­fore, it is no sur­prise that the robot­ics world proved itself to be extreme­ly pop­u­lar in 2016.

Robot­ics Indus­try Asso­ci­a­tion pub­lished num­bers that showed robot orders were up 10% from 2015 to 2016. There were a total of 34,606 robots ordered with a total mar­ket val­ue of $1.9 bil­lion, in North Amer­i­ca alone. The demand surged in the fourth quar­ter last year as robot orders hit 10,621 val­ued at $561 mil­lion, a 21% increase from 2015.

The auto­mo­tive indus­try also saw orders jump by 17% in 2016; assem­bly up 61%, food and con­sumer goods indus­try up 32%, and spot weld­ing up 24%.

The robot­ics indus­try will con­tin­ue to make waves across all industries,ranging from auto, to food, to con­sumer goods. For more infor­ma­tion about any robot­ic ser­vices, feel free to con­tact Robots​.com rep­re­sen­ta­tives online, or at 877−762−6881.