World Robotics: Statistics, Market Analysis, Case Studies and Profitability of Robot Investment, 2005

This annual publication contains comparable international statistics on industrial robotics, as well as on service robots. Detailed statistics are given for 40 countries, broken down by application areas, industrial branches, types of robots and by other techno-economic variables, as well as data on production, exports and imports for selected countries, and trends in robot densities. This edition analyses developments during 2004 and gives forecasts up to 2008. It contains a number of case studies, showing actual robot installations and their effect on costs, production, employment structure and overall profitability.