The second thing to notice about this chart is the surprisingly slow growth of robot shipments. About 70,000 robots were shipped in 1995. After 18 years, the figure was only about 2.5 times larger.

It notes that robots have created new types of jobs in maintenance and technical operations. More than 700,000 employees have been trained for these roles since 2019, according to the company.

A da Vinci surgical robot system performs heart surgery in 2017 at a hospital in Hefei, China. Credit: Shutterstock. In 2006, China highlighted the importance of robotics in its 15-year plan for ...

Example 2.5: Precedence Gantt Chart. This example produces a Gantt chart of the schedule obtained from PROC CPM. The example uses the network described in Example 2.2 (AOA format) and assumes that the ...