fiscal year 2021; the Japanese fiscal years start on April 1 of the stated year and end on March 31 of the following year
Supplementary notes
*Forecast.
The source defines robots as machines that include mechanical devices equipped with sensors, drive systems, and intelligence/control systems; only systems without mechanical devices are not included. Only manufacturing robots that can collaborate with people without safety barriers - collaborative robots - are included. Conventional-style manufacturing robots requiring safety barriers are not included. The market also does not include already widely used automobiles, construction machinery, agricultural machinery, etc., in which conventional-style hardware are installed autonomous driving functions.
100 Japanese yen equal 0.74 U.S. dollars or 0.70 euros as of December 2022.
In the fiscal year 2021, the domestic robot market in Japan was valued at almost *** billion Japanese yen. The source forecast a prospective market size of around *** billion yen by fiscal 2027. The market included logistics and transfer robots, medical and nursing robots, office and store robots, household robots, collaborative manufacturing robots as well as robots for non-manufacturing industries.
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