The sales value of professional service robots is 2019 worldwide at 32 Percent and has reached a volume of 10, 2 billion US dollars. That comes from the yearbook “World Robotics 2020 – Service-Robots” of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). For 2020, the IFR is forecasting a further increase in sales due to the coronavirus pandemic due to a greater need for disinfection and logistics robots.

Among the professional service robots, medical robots lead the field of sales in 47 percent. , it says in the IFR yearbook (chargeable). Due to the high individual prices of the specialized robots, the sales volume amounts to 5.3 billion dollars, an increase compared to 2018 by 28 percent. The robot systems, which are mainly used in surgery, come 90 percent from the USA and Europe. The market potential is huge: 2022 sales could already rise to 11 , 3 billion dollars rise.

Never tired logistics robots A big market are in the Robots used in logistics that are bought and leased. The IFR experts consider their market value to be 110 percent higher than 2018. The sales volume is around 1.9 billion dollars with a potential for annual growth rates of 40 percent. Logistics robots are mainly used indoors. You work autonomously and mobile in warehouses. As a result of advancing digitalization, robots are also increasingly found in intelligent factories, in which they are used in production, for example as supplier robots.

According to Milton Guerry, President of the IFR, logistics robots pay off quickly from: “With an assumed 24 – hourly operation, the purchase pays for itself within 2 to 3 years – often even much faster . “They are also durable and rarely fail. This enables companies to keep their operating costs low. This is also possible through the use of Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS), because the costs for hardware acquisition are eliminated, so companies are more likely to do so can consider automation with robots. Companies from the USA and Europe also have the edge when it comes to professional logistics robots. Around 90 percent come from there, 10 Percent from Asia.

Robo ter for home use In addition to professional service robots, there are also those for personal use such as vacuum cleaner or lawnmower robots. Around 23, 2 million of these or similar service robots for domestic use went 2019 over the counter, an increase of 32 percent. Sales were around $ 5.7 billion. Despite overall falling prices for these robots, an increase of 20 percent.

The robots for domestic use are mainly built in the USA according to the IFR (75 percent), the rest sta