

Through the acquisition, the company aims to expand its range of warehouse logistics solutions and open up new market segments.

In the EU-27, the robot density is 231, which is above the global average of 132.

Unemployment in IT and engineering professions rose by 17.6 percent, while the total number of vacancies fell by 23 percent to 99,470.

Agile Robots has taken over the European and North American assets of Thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering and will continue to operate the business under the name Krause Automation.

Steute Technologies, backed by Battery Ventures, has acquired the industrial switching technology specialist and part of Kiepe Electric GmbH