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The electric steel dilemma and its impact on motor vendors

Control Engineering

However, the share of business held by commercial and industrial electric motor vendors is being threatened by the automotive sector in the wake of electric vehicles. However, increased demand from the automotive sector via electric vehicles is, and will continue to be, a contributing factor to the staying power of higher prices.

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China overtakes United States in robot density

Control Engineering

With its globally recognized electronics industry and a distinct automotive sector, the Korean economy profits from two large customer industries for industrial robots. Robot density in the United States rose from 255 units in 2020 to 274 units in 2021. United States falls to ninth.

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When will the mobile robot vendor base consolidate?

Control Engineering

The combined market share of the top 10 and top 20 leading vendors barely changed between 2018 and 2020 and indeed dropped in 2021. From automated tugger trains on automotive production lines, through to mobile manipulators picking individual items in a fulfillment center.