FRANKFURT, Germany—Sales of industrial robots in China increased by 19 percent in 2020, according to preliminary data from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
“The outlook for the robotics industry is optimistic,” says Milton Guerry, IFR president and president of gripper supplier SCHUNK. “In China, where the coronavirus lockdown came into force first, the robotics industry started to recover in 2020. In total 167,000 industrial robots were shipped.”