International robot alliance announced that the 2015 global industrial robot sales growth of 12% over the previous year, to 248000, hitting a record high in three consecutive years, China is the biggest consumer market.

International robot league (IFR) on June 22, announced that the 2015 global industrial robot sales growth of 12% over the previous year, to 248000, hitting a record high for three years. The strong demand in Asia, are sold to China, South Korea, Japan three countries industrial robots for 139000, accounting for more than half of global sales. According to the requirements, electrical and electronic, metal, rubber and resin boosted the overall growth of the industry.

According to the country, China is growing by 17% to 67000 units, three consecutive years as the world's largest market. Under the background of the economic slowdown, help to improve the production efficiency of robot demand remains strong. South Korea substantially increased 50% to 37000 units, from last year's fourth largest second. Japan rose 20%, to 35000, was ranked third. Five countries, including the United States and Germany accounted for 75% of global demand.

International alliance predicted robot, in order to make the production system more flexible, and deal with a large number of production required to consumer demand growth, will continue to maintain double-digit growth in the future. By 2018, the global industrial robot to run the Numbers to reach about 2.3 million units, to 2.3 times that of 2009.