The Demand for Industrial Robots has Decelerated

The growth of industrial robot revenues eased back in 2019 however it is predicted to get again towards late 2020 and quicken in 2021, as indicated by new market research from Interact Analysis.

Interact Analysis delivered another market report zeroing in on the industrial robot market which outlines reasons to be positive in the division, notwithstanding a quick, short term decline in incomes.

The report really expounds around explicit headwinds that have challenged development in that sector, including the slowing down of the worldwide economy, trade wars and vulnerability in the worldwide automotive industry.

Compared with 2017, where incomes related to industrial robots increased by 20%, predicted decrease of 4.3% in 2019 have caused some worry.

While the novel Covid pandemic started a couple of months back, March 2020 was the point at which it influenced the worldwide economy. Numerous governments and organizations have requested a large number of individuals to telecommute or close down, however the robotics technology industry grows, with more than $2.7 billion in reported transactions a month ago.

In all actuality, most of that sum was investment in self-driving vehicle organization Waymo early in March, when the economic log jam was simply starting in certain nations and businesses. In any case, as sibling publication The Robot Report has discovered, the COVID-19 emergency has likewise given chances to certain providers of robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, and artificial intelligence to grow and help individuals.

Investment movement had just started easing back in East Asia prior this year, especially in manufacturing center China, which is apparently beginning to recuperate. When Europe, North America, and other countries of the world pass the worst in terms of infections and closures relies to a great extent upon local governments and remains to be seen.

The incorporation of industrial robots and cobots into industrial facility workspaces to improve precision and productivity saw numbers reach close to record highs, however, it has eased back based on 2019 sales, the IFR report shows. While there are more robots in operations currently, demand will probably ebb until economies urge organizations to make new investments once more.

Notwithstanding the general drop in industrial robotic sales, the arrangement of new cobots bounced to 18,049 units — a 4.8% portion of total robot deployments in 2019. That is up from 2.8% in 2017 when IFR began gathering cobot information. IFR ascribes the increase to more providers offering cobots and a more extensive range of utilizations.

A focal element to the report's discoveries is the impact China is having on the worldwide industrial robot market in 2019.

While Japan remains the biggest maker of industrial robots, with an expected 45% of total production, there has been huge development underway capacity and yield in China.

This can be ascribed to various factors, including Chinese vendors entering the market and inward investment from traditional industrial goliaths like ABB, Fanuc, Kuka and Yaskawa.

While genuine development of industrial robot revenues has eased back down, the reasons behind this are clear and, generally, outside the ability to control the vendors.

Meanwhile, two robotics organizations shut down in March 2020 in light of the fact that they ran out of financing, not on the grounds that they may have been considered "insignificant" organizations. San Francisco-based autonomous truck startup Starsky Robotics and Malden, Mass.- based hybrid drone power-supply provider Top Flight Technologies Inc. closed.