align="left"> In June 23rd, according to Reuters, the International Federation of Robotics (The International Federation of Robotics, IFR) said on Wednesday, due to a sharp drop in orders from Chinese, global industrial robot sales in 2015 grew by only 12%.

This figure is lower than the global industrial robot sales in 2014 29% growth rate, but higher than the 8% IFR previously given forecast.

Sales of industrial robots in China increased from 56% in 2014 to 17% in 2015. At present, due to rising wages and the proportion of robots and workers are still at a low level, China still hopes to achieve more automated production.

Last year, a total of 248 thousand industrial robots sold worldwide, while China accounted for more than 1/4.

IFR said sales growth of industrial robots by the emerging automation of the country as well as the economy has been highly developed countries to promote.

Mexico industrial robot sales more than doubled, the main reason is that the global automotive industry in the country invested heavily in the construction of the plant in order to facilitate the production of cars sold in the United States and South america.

Chinese market is still dominated by foreign robot manufacturers, but IFR said, China's domestic robot manufacturers are gradually developed, which accounted for 25% of the market share in 2013 from in 2015 to 31%.

Chinese manufacturers are still mostly low-end industrial robots, but they are committed to improving their level.

Chinese home appliance manufacturers in the United States last week has been to the German industrial robot Cuca (Kuka) to launch a tender offer.

IFR said sales of industrial robots in Europe increased by 10% in Germany, which played a leading role in the Americas increased by 15%, but the United States grew by only 3%, Asia grew by 16%.

South Korea is the world's second largest robot market, behind China, followed by Japan, the United States and germany. The five countries accounted for 3/4 of industrial robot sales.

The auto industry is still the biggest buyer of the robot, its total sales in the share of more than 1/3, but the increase is only 1%.

The fastest growth industries to buy robots are metals, plastics, rubber, and electronics.