N. America sees a third quarter of record robot sales

Robot sales in North America hit a record high for the third quarter in a row, according to a report by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). The second quarter of 2022 saw 12,305 robots sold, with 59 percent of those orders coming from the automotive industry and most of the remaining orders from the food and consumer goods industry.

The sales for Q2 of 2022 marked a 25 increase over sales from the same period in 2021 and were up 6 percent from the 11,595 robots sold in Q1 of 2022. The value of sales in Q2 2022 was $585 million.

Robot sales in North America are off to their best start ever, with a 26 percent increase in units ordered and a 29 percent rise in revenue compared to the same period in 2021.

“While this quarter shows a marked shift back to historic norms with more robots going to automotive than to any other industry, the continued growth of robotics in food and consumer goods companies especially demonstrates the ongoing need to automate warehouse logistics for handling the exploding growth of e-commerce,” A3 President Jeff Burnstein said.