According to the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the North American automation market set new records through the first nine months of 2017 with 27,294 orders of robots valued at approximately $1.473 billion. These figures represent growth of 14 percent in units and 10 percent in dollars during the first nine months of 2016. Automotive-related orders are up 11 percent in units and 10 percent in dollars, while non-automotive orders are up 20 percent and 11 percent, respectively.