Korea Reaches Record 300,000 Industrial Robots in Operation
FRANKFURT, Germany – The recently released World Robotics report presented by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) shows a new record stock of about 300,000 operational industrial robots in the Republic of Korea in 2018. Within five years, the country has doubled its number of industrial robots. Following Japan and China, the country ranked third in 2018.
On the downside, the dynamics of robot installations has decreased in recent years. For 2019, a continued decrease is expected.