Industry and Economics
What an Industrial Robot Costs, and What the Robot Is Not
An industrial arm costs between roughly 20,000 and 90,000 euro depending on payload class, and that is 20 % to 35 % of a working cell. The...
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Industry and Economics
Installations, density, prices and payback, with the source next to every figure.
Industry and Economics
Professional Service Robots: The Segments That Actually Sell
Almost 200,000 professional service robots were sold in 2024, up 9 %. One segment dominates: transport and logistics took 102,900 units,...
Industry and Economics
Robot Density by Country: The Full Ranking
The Republic of Korea leads at 1,220 robots per 10,000 manufacturing employees, nearly ten times the world average of 132. Singapore is...
Industry and Economics
Robot Installations Worldwide: The Ten-Year Curve
542,000 industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2024, more than double the level of a decade earlier, and annual installations have...
Industry and Economics
Robot Payback Period: How to Calculate It Honestly
Divide the installed cost by the annual saving and the answer is usually optimistic by a factor of 1.5 to 2.5. Three corrections fix most...
Industry and Economics
The Robot Supply Chain: Where the Bottlenecks Are
Three constraints govern robot output, and they are not the ones buyers expect. Precision gearboxes come from a very small group of...
Industry and Economics
Robotics as a Service: When Renting Beats Buying
Renting wins when the deployment is short, uncertain or seasonal, and when the customer lacks the engineering capacity to own the machine....
Industry and Economics
Where Robotics Funding Actually Goes
Funding and shipments point in different directions. Humanoid programmes have raised the largest individual rounds, with one company...
Industry and Economics
Do Robots Destroy Jobs? What the Studies Actually Show
The three most cited studies disagree, and the disagreement is informative rather than embarrassing. US regional data finds one additional...
Industry and Economics
The System Integrator Market: Who Does the Real Work
Robot manufacturers sell components. System integrators turn them into machines, and they perform most of the engineering, carry the...