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Robotics sales decline for second straight quarter amid economic woes

Broadly speaking, the pandemic has been a gamechanger for automation broadly and robotics specifically. Per new numbers from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) -- whose job it is to track such things -- North American robot orders declined a substantial 37% year-over-year for Q2 (April to July).

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Broadly speaking, the pandemic has been a gamechanger for automation broadly and robotics specifically. Per new numbers from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) -- whose job it is to track such things -- North American robot orders declined a substantial 37% year-over-year for Q2 (April to July).