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Boom in robot investmentBoom in robot investment
1. statistics
2. prices
3. task area
4. consequence
1. statistics
- in 2003 there were nearly 900000 robots in use worldwide
- between 1998 and 1999 the world market for industrial robots increased by 15 per cent.
- robots are mostly used in the USA and in the EU
- in Japan and Korea there has only been an increase of 5 per cent
2. prices
- Prices for robots are plummeting
- in 1999 the price for a robot was one fifth of the cost of a counterpart robot in 1990