IFR statistics underpin the Schaeffler expert s view that there s a huge global need to catch up In the pre pandemic year of 2019 there were 2 743 in dustrial robots per 10 000 employees in South Korea s car industry That was a top ratio world wide because the global automotive industry aver age was just 722 Across industries the ratio was merely 113 For the compact collaborative robots called cobots for short the ratio was even as low as 4 per 10 000 human colleagues Simplified teaching There s an important aspect assisting in the race to catch up says Moseberg Both industrial robots and the more compact cobots are increasingly eas ier to program and implement Especially in the case of large industrial robots working in shielded settings that are separated from human workers to ensure safety the implementation costs proved to be a major impediment to their widespread use Unsurprisingly especially small and medium size companies don t embrace the prospect of incur ring implementation costs amounting to two or three times the robot s price households in Europe already uses a robot Robotic lawn mowers were the first robots for domestic use In 1998 manufacturer Husqvarna presented the first model that not only mowed autonomously but also traveled back to its charging station independently Robotic vacuum cleaners achieved their breakthrough in 2001 thanks to iRobot Roomba Floor mopping and window cleaning robots followed In 2021 6 7 billion U S dollars were spent on 31 2 million domestic robots In 2023 that amount is expected to increase to 10 billion The calculated time savings for household chores amount to 14 hours per week 1 in 10 Source International Federation of Robotics A forward thinking trend Cobots that are installed on autonomously traveling platforms and can therefore independently change the locations at which they work 11 ROBOTICS

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