Funding in automating the automobile business in Europe stays excessive. The whole variety of industrial robots put in reached 23,000 in 2024, which is the second-best lead to 5 years. These are preliminary outcomes introduced by the Worldwide Federation of Robotics (IFR).
“The European automotive sector is the area’s strongest buyer business for robotics,” says Takayuki Ito, President of the Worldwide Federation of Robotics. “Automobile makers are accounting for round a 3rd of annual manufacturing installations in Europe. By way of automation exercise, the mixed variety of 23,000 European robotic installations within the automobile sector was forward of the 19,200 items put in in North America in 2024.”
Automotive robotic density
At a world degree, Europe´s automobile manufacturing is very automated: Six European international locations are among the many high ten on the planet’s robotic density rating for the automotive business in 2023: Switzerland is in first place, with a ratio of three,876 robots to 10,000 manufacturing unit employees. Slovenia is in third place (1,762 items), Germany in sixth (1,492 items), Austria in eighth (1,412 items), Finland in ninth (1,288 items), and the Benelux international locations are in tenth place with 1,132 items.
European Union is in lead
Other than Switzerland, all of those automation champions are EU member states. The EU27 international locations’ main position is clear not solely within the automotive business, however throughout all sectors, accounting for round 85% of all regional installations in 2024. Germany, which belongs to the 5 main robotic markets on the planet, had a share of about 30% of the full installations in Europe. Italy adopted with about 10% and Spain with about 6%.
From 2019 to 2024, the compound annual progress fee (CAGR) of robots put in within the Europe was +3%.
IFR Govt Spherical Desk, June 25 in Munich
On the IFR Govt Spherical Desk on 25 June 2025 on the automatica commerce honest in Munich, we are going to current new preliminary information: The Spherical Desk specialists will talk about the necessity for larger resilience in instances of accelerating uncertainty: What efforts are governments making — or ought to they be making — to maintain up within the race? How can robots guarantee Europe’s competitiveness and open up new markets?
https://ifr.org/roundtable
SOURCE: IFR
