TOKYO—Sales of industrial robots in China, the world’s biggest market, will grow this year at only about a third of last year as an escalating China-U.S. trade war hits spending on equipment, a global robot group said on Oct. 18.
The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) in its annual report forecast Chinese demand for robots will grow 15-20 percent this year after surging 59 percent to 137,920 units last year.
