Pick, Place, Repeat: Handling Tops Industrial Robot Tasks

While robots continue to transform global manufacturing, handling tasks - such as picking, placing and moving materials - remain by far the leading industrial automation application. According to estimates from Statista Market Insights, this segment accounted for over half (51 percent) of all industrial uses worldwide in 2024. In comparison, that same year, the two other more popular applications: welding (15 percent) and assembling (10 percent), were together roughly half as prominent. This distribution underscores the ongoing automation of repetitive, labor-intensive processes, especially in sectors like automotive, logistics and electronics. Among the other industrial robot applications on the rise, we can also mention room cleaning, which accounted for around 5 percent of global uses in 2024.