Orders of robots increased 40 percent in the first quarter of 2022, amid soaring inflation and labor shortages, according to a new report by the robotics industry’s trade group, the Association for Advancing Automation (A3).
According to the report, which was first cited by The Wall Street Journal, orders for workplace robots in North America rose by 40 percent in the first three months of the year compared to the same period in 2021.
North American companies purchased the most robots ever in a single quarter in the first quarter of 2022, according to Robotics 24/7 citing the A3 report.
Orders in the plastics and rubber industry rose 29 percent year-over-year, while they surged 23 percent year-over-year in the semiconductor, electronics, and photonics industry, and rose 21 percent year-over-year in the food and consumer goods industry….