Score points: 25 facts about VR, robots and other Industry 4.0 technologies

Context

  • 47-place

our country was ranked in the annual ranking of the Global Innovation Index 2020, dropping one position in the list of 131 countries participating in the study over the year. The top three rankings include Switzerland, Sweden and the United States.

  • 66% investment

in blockchain startups and 89% of blockchain patents come from the largest financial institutions in the US and China.

  • 56% Respondent

out of 900 executives from large companies in the US, Europe and Asia, believe that cloud storage has become an absolute necessity today.

  • $ 3,5 billion

amounted to damage from hacker attacks around the world in 2019. This is 1,3 times more than in 2018. In total, over 467 requests from victims of hacker attacks were recorded last year.

  • $ 43,1 billion

will be the cost of business on cybersecurity in 2020. This is 5,6% more than last year.

  • 109 countries of the world

by 2020 have already implemented facial recognition algorithms or have legally approved their use. At the same time, the global market for face recognition systems will grow from $3,8 billion in 2020 to $4,5 billion in 2021.

  • 47% Muscovites

support the use of a face recognition system in the city, and 42% are against.

  • 855 industrial robots

accounts for 10 thousand employees of enterprises in South Korea. Today it is the most automated country in the world. In second place is Japan (364), in third is Germany (346). In total, 2,7 million industrial robots work in factories and factories around the world.

  • 66% of respondents in our country

are ready to use robots as housekeepers, 62% would entrust them with the delivery of goods from stores and 53% would like to deal with legal issues with them. At the same time, only every fifth respondent agrees to entrust his life to a robot-driver, every seventh respondent agrees to go under the knife of a robot-surgeon, and only every tenth agrees to entrust a robot-caregiver to take care of their child.

Practice

  • 1 million robots

for commercial use will be sold worldwide in 2020, and more than half of them will be so-called service robots – devices and mechanisms that are not used in industrial production.

  • 2/3 of surveyed users

of the Internet believe that companies should have a code of ethics for artificial intelligence (AI) and a corresponding supervisory board.

  • 8% of employees

Amazon are injured while working in the automated warehouses of the company owned by the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos (net worth – more than $ 200 billion). These injury rates are twice the industry average.

  • At $15 billion

more than before the pandemic, global IT giants spent weekly on ensuring the security of remote workflows in May-August 2020.

  • About $4 million

were the average total costs incurred by companies as a result of a data breach in 2019. Yet, according to one survey, 69% of organizations attribute data breaches to insiders.

  • 15 billion

of stolen logins and passwords, including more than 5 billion unique credentials from residents of different countries, can be found on hacker forums, underground marketplaces and file hosting in 2020.

  • 28%

amounted to the average annual growth of the e-commerce segment in our country from 2011 to 2019. Over the years, the market for the sale of material goods via the Internet has grown from 235 billion to 1,72 trillion rubles. (excluding the sale of services, including tourism, content, including games and videos, and lotteries).

  • 10 million our countries

became new buyers in the online trading sector in the first three months of quarantine. It is expected that under the influence of the coronavirus epidemic, the volume of the e-commerce market will grow to 2020 trillion rubles in 2,5. instead of 2,2 trillion according to the basic development scenario and up to 7,2 trillion rubles. in 2024 instead of 5,6 trillion.

  • 38%

was the growth in sales of “smart” speakers in our country from January to July 2020. We are talking about 1,3 million “smart” and wireless speakers in the amount of 6,7 billion rubles. The demand for “smart” speakers with a voice assistant is growing most actively – their sales increased by 6,5 times in pieces.

  • 5,7 thousand rubles.

spent on average our country in 2020 on the purchase of “smart” speakers. In total, about 20 “smart” speakers are presented on the domestic market at a price of 4 thousand to 30 thousand rubles.

Perspective

  • Over 3 billion inhabitants

The planets are regularly turning to voice assistants – Google Assistant alone is used by 500 million people today. By 2024, the number of digital voice assistants “living” in mobile devices and smart home equipment is predicted to reach 8,4 billion units – this number is higher than the entire population of the world.

  • 38 bn. Rub.

will be the volume of the domestic market of solutions in the field of computer vision in 2023.

  • Up to $35,8 billion

from $3,8 billion in 2019, the market for digital twins will grow by 2025 to help design new products, model processes, and generally optimize business performance.

  • $ 220 thousand

will lose Amazon for a minute of site downtime due to a failure in its operation. The largest US retailers Walmart and Home Depot will lose $40,8 thousand and $14,5 thousand respectively as a result of downtime of their websites.

  • 23,5 million jobs

around the world will use virtual and augmented reality (AR and VR) technologies for staff training and corporate meetings by 2030, as well as for better customer service.

  • $ 108 billion

is expected to be the global AR/VR market in 2021, with the virtual reality segment accounting for $25 billion. More cautious forecasts say that only by 2024 the VR market will overcome the $24,5 billion mark.


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