ROBOT SURVEY
November 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE BOOM in the robot market that continued through the 1990's into last year has hit the skids in north America, where demand plummeted by 28 per cent in the half-year to June. However, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and International Federation of Robotics says that in Europe, the market is still expanding, with sales rising by 11 per cent in the first six months of 2001. In Asia the market has also fallen, by 10 per cent, while is the rest of the world it rose slightly, by two per cent. The gloomy news from north America was ...
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