The North American robotics industry showed its largest growth ever during the first half of this year, according to statistics released recently by the Robotic Industries Association.<\/p>\n
A record 14,135 robots, worth $788 million, were ordered from North American robotics firms from January until June. That’s an increase of 30% in units and 16% in revenues compared to the same period the previous year.<\/p>\n
Since 2010, the North American robotics market has shown an average annual growth rate of 26%. This has happened at the same time that the US unemployment rate has been dropping.<\/p>\n
Jeff Burnstein, the group’s president, said the two simultaneous occurrences are not coincidental.<\/p>\n
“In 2010, after one of the worst recessions in our nation’s history, unemployment in the US was nearing 10%,” Burnstein said in a news release<\/a>. “Since then, amidst record years for robot sales, unemployment has steadily fallen toward pre-recessionary levels. The unemployment rate reached 6.1% in June of this year, the lowest it has been since September of 2008.”<\/p>\n Burnstein said manufacturing jobs are returning to the US precisely because of the investment industries are making in automation like robots.<\/p>\n “While we often hear that robots are job killers, just the opposite is true,” he said. “Robots save and create jobs.”<\/p>\n The automotive industry had the biggest impact on robot sales. During Q2 2014, orders for robots in this sector were up 97% compared to the same period in 2013. Non-automotive industries such as semiconductors, life sciences and food & consumer goods also showed 22% \u00a0growth in robotics while automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and component industries grew by 36% in the first half of this year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The North American robotics industry showed its largest growth ever during the first half of this year, according to statistics released recently by the Robotic Industries Association. A record 14,135 robots, worth $788 million, were ordered from North American robotics firms from January until June. That’s an increase of 30% in units and 16% in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,293],"tags":[1079],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-material-handling","category-news","tag-material-handling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12516,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions\/12516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}