About the product
World Robotics 2000 is the only publication, which presents comprehensive global statistics on industrial robots as well as on service robots in uniform tables allowing consistent country comparisons. It contains detailed statistical data for some 20 countries, broken down by application areas, industrial branches, types of robots and by other techno-economic variables. Data on production, exports and imports are presented for a selection of countries. Trends in robot densities, i.e., number of robots per 10,000 employed, are also highlighted. Developments in 1999 are analyzed in detail and forecasts up to 2003 are presented. A special section is devoted to case studies, showing actual robot installations and what effects they have on costs, production and employment structure as well as overall profitability. Here the reader can get 'hands-on' information about different companies' actual experience using robots. This unique yearbook is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in the development of industrial robots and the technological vanguard of modern manufacturing. Almost encyclopedic in scope, it provides the foundation for further analysis.
