Companies Order Record Number of Robots Amid Labor Shortage

North American firms ordered nearly 29,000 robotics units in first nine months of 2021

Robotics orders by North American companies are on track for their biggest year, according to an industry group. Total robotics sales for the first nine months of the year were $1.48 billion, topping a previous record of $1.47 billion set over the same period in 2017, according to the Association for Advancing Automation, or A3. Sales rose from $1.09 billion in the first nine months of last yea..

SOURCE: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL