The world robot population is on the rise. Today we the robot population stands at 8.6 Million. We should observe a calm but steady rise in the numbers. The data is illustrated below.

Currently the robots play a major role as industry robots and service robots. The industry robots includes welding systems, assembly manipulators, and other heavy, expensive operation oriented machines. The service robots consists of professional service robots like surgical systems, poultry robots, etc and personal service robots like vacuum cleaners, etc.

By 2011, the world’s industrial robot population is expected to rise to 1.2 million. Which areas will these robots cater to, and how the machine-to-human balance will change, remains to be seen. Though the robots are not readily visible, and are yet to become a part of our everyday life, the machines are rising in numbers.

[IEEE Spectrum]

Tags: Robotics, Technology

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