While robots continue to transform global manufacturing, handling tasks - such as picking, placing and moving materials - remain by far the leading industrial automation application. According to estimates from ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Market ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ, this segment accounted for over half (51 percent) of all industrial uses worldwide in 2024. In comparison, that same year, the two other more popular applications: welding (15 percent) and assembling (10 percent), were together roughly half as prominent. This distribution underscores the ongoing automation of repetitive, labor-intensive processes, especially in sectors like automotive, logistics and electronics. Among the other industrial robot applications on the rise, we can also mention room cleaning, which accounted for around 5 percent of global uses in 2024.
Industrial robots
Pick, Place, Repeat: Handling Tops Industrial Robot Tasks
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This chart shows the estimated distribution of the global stock of industrial robots in 2024, by application (in percent).
