Universal Robots picks China for first overseas production facility

Global Robotics A/S is wanting to dramatically broaden its visibility in China, the globe’s biggest market for commercial robotics. The globe’s leading designer of joint robotic arms is opening up a manufacturing center there and presenting 2 robotics that will certainly be offered solely to the Chinese market.

To fulfill enhancing Chinese need, Universal Robots (UR) has actually developed making abilities in Nantong, China. The firm will certainly create 2 brand-new cobots for that market: the UR7e and UR12e. Information on the robotics are limited right now, and they aren’t provided on UR’s site.

UR informed The Robotic Record that the UR7e has a 7.5 kg (16.5 pound.) haul and a reach of 850 mm (33.4 in.), while the UR12e has a 12.5 kg (27.5 pound.) haul and a 1,300 mm (51.1 in.) reach.

UR stated the requirements of these designs has actually been “particularly picked to fulfill the requirements of China’s vehicle, digital, and steel & equipment sectors together with others.”

This is the very first abroad manufacturing center for UR. Its various other cobots, consisting of the current generation that consists of the UR20 and UR30, will certainly remain to be produced in Odense, Denmark, where UR has actually been headquartered considering that its beginning in 2005. UR stated it has actually marketed greater than 90,000 cobots to day.

” UR items are understood globally for their high quality and style– a result of Denmark’s phenomenal society of development and design quality,” stated Kim Povlsen, head of state of Universal Robots. “As our firm expands, it is coming to be essential to expand our manufacturing base. Our firm gets on a vibrant goal: Automation for any individual, anywhere. Developing a manufacturing base in China will certainly take us an action better to getting to component of the worldwide market for whom our existing modern technology is presently unreachable.”

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Universal Robots acknowledges market possibility

UR covered the significance of China in October 2023. It stated “Chinese manufacturing is quite on course to being automized like in nothing else nation in the world.”

China’s big production market and future labor lack are 2 crucial factors for why its been the globe’s biggest robotics market for greater than a years. According to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), China is without a doubt the biggest robotics market.

The IFR stated the 276,288 commercial robotics set up in China in 2023 stand for 51% of all worldwide robotics installments. In the long-term, the IFR stated there is still a great deal of development capacity in Chinese production, with the capacity for 5% to 10% typical yearly development till 2027.

For contrast’s benefit, the IFR stated Japan stayed the second-largest worldwide market for commercial robotics in 2023. Robotic installments got to 46,106 systems in 2023 in Japan, down 9% from the year prior to. Robotic installments in the united state were down 5% in 2023 at 37,587, according to the IFR.

China’s robotic thickness climbs up

The IFR additionally tracks robotic thickness, a number that suggests the variety of functional commercial robotics per 10,000 workers in a nation or area. The IFR stated robotic thickness a crucial sign of just how automated a nation’s production industry is.

China was 3rd general in robotic thickness in 2023, with 470 robotics per 10,000 workers. It tracked just the Republic of Korea and Singapore, which had robotic thickness of 1,012 and 770, specifically.

China took 3rd location in 2023, going beyond Germany and Japan for the very first time. It has actually been greatly buying automation modern technology recently. This financial investment appears to have actually settled, the IFR kept in mind, as individuals’s Republic of China got to a high robotic thickness of 470 robotics per 10,000 workers, compared to 402 systems in 2022.

UR absolutely has some competitors amongst residential cobot makers in China. The listing of Chinese cobot manufacturers consists of AUBO Robotics, Dobot, Elephant Robotics, Jaka Robots, Siasun, and a lot more.

Global Robotics produced $304 million in earnings in 2023, which was down 7% year-over-year from the document $326 million produced in 2022. UR is had by Teradyne, a leading designer of automated screening tools.

Teradyne has formerly stated its market infiltration for joint robotics, consisting of self-governing mobile robotics (AMRs), is under 5%, leaving Teradyne with a great deal of space for lasting development. Teradyne additionally has Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR), a leading company of AMRs.