China Leads Post-Pandemic Recovery...in Industrial Robot Purchases
FRANKFURT—Preliminary data by the International Federation of Robotics shows a 19 percent sales increase of industrial robots to China in 2020, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, nearly 167,000 industrial robots were delivered there last year.
"In China, where the coronavirus lockdown came into force first, the robotics industry started to recover already in 2020,” says Milton Guerry, President of the International Federation of Robotics. “The outlook for the robotics industry is optimistic.”