Editing Industrial robot (section)

==Market structure==
According to the [[International Federation of Robotics]] (IFR) study ''World Robotics 2024'', there were about 4,281,585 operational industrial robots by the end of 2023.<ref name="ifr.org"/><ref name="jara.jp"/> For the year 2018 the IFR estimates the worldwide sales of industrial robots with US$16.5 billion. Including the cost of software, peripherals and systems engineering, the annual turnover for robot systems is estimated to be US$48.0 billion in 2018.<ref name="IFR 2019">{{cite web|url=https://ifr.org/downloads/press2018/Executive%20Summary%20WR%202019%20Industrial%20Robots.pdf|title=Executive Summary World Robotics 2019 Industrial Robots|website=ifr.org|access-date=10 October 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406010937/https://ifr.org/downloads/press/Executive_Summary_WR_2017_Industrial_Robots.pdf|archive-date=6 April 2018}}</ref>

China is the largest industrial robot market<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=Lan |first=Xiaohuan |title=How China Works: An Introduction to China's State-led Economic Development |publisher=[[Palgrave MacMillan]] |year=2024 |isbn=978-981-97-0079-0 |translator-last=Topp |translator-first=Gary |doi=10.1007/978-981-97-0080-6}}</ref>{{Rp|page=256}} with 154,032 units sold in 2018.<ref name="IFR 2019" /> China had the largest operational stock of industrial robots, with 649,447 at the end of 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jara.jp/data/dl/Operational_stock_2018.pdf |title=Operational stock of industrial robots at year-end in selected countries. |access-date=2019-10-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011122554/https://www.jara.jp/data/dl/Operational_stock_2018.pdf |archive-date=2019-10-11 }}</ref> The United States industrial robot-makers shipped 35,880 robot to factories in the US in 2018 and this was 7% more than in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |last1=LeVine |first1=Steve |last2=Waddell |first2=Kaveh |url=https://www.axios.com/the-big-american-robot-push-a671b499-114b-4e22-b636-0fe874682e31.html |title=The big American robot push |work=Axios (website) |date=2019-03-01 |access-date=2019-03-01 }}</ref>

The biggest customer of industrial robots is automotive industry with 30% market share, then electrical/electronics industry with 25%, metal and machinery industry with 10%, rubber and [[plastics industry]] with 5%, food industry with 5%.<ref name="IFR 2019" /> In textiles, apparel and leather industry, 1,580 units are operational.<ref name="veconomist">{{cite news|author=Simon Cox|title=Worries about premature industrialisation|url=https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21729864-automation-less-threat-workers-emerging-world-it-made-out|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=5 October 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021014710/https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21729864-automation-less-threat-workers-emerging-world-it-made-out|archive-date=21 October 2017}}</ref>

'''Estimated worldwide annual supply of industrial robots (in units):'''<ref name="ifr.org"/><ref name="jara.jp"/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://ifr.org/ifr-press-releases/news/china-overtakes-usa-in-robot-density | title=China overtakes USA in robot density }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
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!Year!!Supply
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| align="left" | 1998
| align="right" | 69,000
|-
| align="left" | 1999
| align="right" | 79,000
|-
| align="left" | 2000
| align="right" | 99,000
|-
| align="left" | 2001
| align="right" | 78,000
|-
| align="left" | 2002
| align="right" | 69,000
|-
| align="left" | 2003
| align="right" | 81,000
|-
| align="left" | 2004
| align="right" | 97,000
|-
| align="left" | 2005
| align="right" | 120,000
|-
| align="left" | 2006
| align="right" | 112,000
|-
| align="left" | 2007
| align="right" | 114,000
|-
| align="left" | 2008
| align="right" | 113,000
|-
| align="left" | 2009
| align="right" | 60,000
|-
| align="left" | 2010
| align="right" | 118,000
|-
| align="left" | 2012
| align="right" | 159,346 
|-
| align="left" | 2013
| align="right" | 178,132
|-
| align="left" | 2014
| align="right" | 229,261
|-
| align="left" | 2015
| align="right" | 253,748 
|-
| align="left" | 2016
| align="right" | 294,312 
|-
| align="left" | 2017
| align="right" | 381,335 
|-
| align="left" | 2018
| align="right" | 422,271 
|-
| align="left" | 2019
| align="right" | 373,240 
|-
| align="left" | 2020
| align="right" | 383,545 
|-
| align="left" | 2021
| align="right" | 517,385 
|-
| align="left" | 2022
| align="right" | 553,052
|}