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The chief board of the Worldwide Federation of Robotics (IFR) has elected Takayuki Ito as its new Vice President. Ito is at the moment Fanuc’s senior managing officer for its robotics enterprise.

Ito succeeds Kenji Yamaguchi, additionally from Fanuc, within the position. Yamaguchi took over as VP in July 2022 when Marina Invoice took over because the IFR’s president.

Ito brings over 40 years of robotics business expertise to the position. He started working for Fanuc in 1981 as a software program engineer. In 1997, he turned the execute president of FANUC Robotics North America, and he returned to its dad or mum firm and served as basic supervisor at its Robotic Know-how Heart in 2002.

The IFR acts because the voice of the worldwide robotics business. The nonprofit group was based in 1987 and represents nationwide robotic associations, academia and producers of commercial and repair robots from over 20 international locations.

The IFR produces numerous reviews all year long monitoring the gross sales of robots all over the world. It not too long ago reported that the North American robotics market confirmed robust progress. In keeping with the IFR, complete installations in manufacturing rose by 12% and reached 41,624 models in 2022. The primary adopter was the automotive business: corporations primarily based within the U.S., Canada and Mexico put in 20,391 industrial robots – up 30% in comparison with 2021.