IFR: ~7,000 autonomous humanoids were sold globally in 2025 for industrial and professional use, with many bought for research instead of for productive work
Around 7,000 humanoid robots were sold worldwide last year for industrial and professional service use, figures compiled by the International Federation of Robotics showed.
IFR: Chinese factories install ~280K industrial robots every year, or 50% of the global total, helping China boost its global exports; ~50% are locally made
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Chinese warehouse robotic startups are keen to ease Japan's logistics crunch; IFR: 52% of ~550K warehouse robots installed globally in 2022 were made in China
Nikkei Asia : X: @nikkeiasia X: @nikkeiasia : Chinese warehouse robot startups are keen on landing orders in Japan, a market scrambling to resolve a looming bottleneck in the logistics industry. http...
IFR data: Chinese factories installed 243K+ robots in 2021, up 45% YoY and around 50% of the global total, adapting to a changing workforce and rising wages
Jason Douglas / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jchengwsj , @andymok , and @kanthan2030 Tweets: Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : China installed almost as many robots in its factories last year as the re...
A Garmin employee confirms that the company's servers were hit by WastedLocker, a ransomware variant developed by Russia-based cybercriminal group Evil Corp
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Report: global sales of robots reached 422K units worth $16.5B in 2018; 74% of global robotics installations were in China, Japan, South Korea, US, and Germany
The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) today released its annual World Robotics Report, which showed an annual global sales value of $16.5 billion in 2018.