Global industrial robotics will usher in a crucial developing period at 2019

The industrial robotics quantity of Japan occupied 60% across the world

Industrial robotics is the most representative equipment in intelligent manufacturing industry. Additionally, Japan, US, Germany and Korea are the industrial robotics powers, especially Japan is regarded as the Robotics kingdom, which is the top country in industrial robotics production, export and use, and the industrial robotics quantity of Japan occupied 60% across the world.

Being affected by the economy, the growth rate of the global industrial robot market is slowing down.

US is the origin of robotics, and Americans developed the first industrial robot in 1962. Although US has gone through a tough way in robotics, the achievement also can lead the industry with advanced and highly adaptable technologies. While Germany still is a key player in this area. Up-and-coming South Korean might be expected because it has been one of the biggest countries around the world with the assistance of government.

Meanwhile, the international famous robotics manufacturers, including ABB, Fanuc, YASKAWA, KUKA, American Robot, Comau, are mainly from developed countries, such as Japan, US and Germany, etc. With the innovations of automatic technologies these years, the global demands for this aspect has been accelerated. From 2012 to 2017, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of global robotics sales is about 19%, by contrast, it was the dramatic increase ever before. According to the newest report of International Federation of Robotics (IFR), the sales volume of industrial robotics has kept fast growth, reaching to 384,000 with the growth of 1% year-on-year.

From the aspect of market, the global industrial robotics market is developing steadily, while it achieved 16.82 billion dollars in 2018.

On-demands mainly focus on fields of automotive, electronics and metalworking

The application industries of current industrial robotics are automotive, electronic, metal and machinery, chemical engineering and food & beverage, while the sales volume of these five industries is over 80%. According to the statics of IFR of 2018, the global sales of industrial robots in the automotive, electrical and electronics, gold and machinery, chemical and food industries accounted for 37.44%, 26.28%, 11.16%, 5.35%, and 2.79% separately.

International market distribution-China is the strategic critical regions

The largest four families of robotics have been the international premium suppliers due to the first-mover advantages and technological advances of Japan and Germany. Japan has the strong technical barrier on the key components manufacturing of reducer, server motor etc. While Germany is good at the aspects of raw materials, body parts and system integration.

The productivity was up to 147,682 in 2018 from the global annual installation of industrial robotics, according to IFR statistics, the production has been declined among North America, Japan, South Korea and Germany. Overall, the Asia-Pacific region is still the market with the largest increase.

Due to the trigger point of aging society, industrial robotics will usher in a crucial developing period

Some studying academics believes that some industrial robotics policies, such as Germany Industry 4.0, Japan's New Robot Strategy, AMP, Made in China 2025, will accelerate robotics industry development. IFR forecast that the global production volume will be up to 850,000 units with the sales 3.55 billion dollars in 2024.