2008 Statistical Trends for Robotics Hobbyists – Automaton: IEEE Spectrum’s blog on robots and robotics technology
Here is the executive summary of a robotics hobbyist:
- 17% are female
- most are aged below 20 or over 40
- those who are retired do not build robots
- India, Indonesia, and Thailand dominate robotics related searches, not the US
- 50% of robotics web traffic begins with a Google search
- 90% use Windows, 4% use Linux, 4.5% use Mac
- there are at least 50,000 robotics hobbyists worldwide
- media attention for robotics has increased every year
- Google searches on robotics terms have dropped more than ~40% in four years
December 21st, 2008 in
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