Beginning in 2018, the Census added a series of questions to their Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES) to better understand how much companies are spending on robotic equipment. The Census defines robot equipment broadly, as “automatically controlled and reprogrammable machines capable of performing a series of complex tasks autonomously or semi-autonomously.” Included in this spending data are robots used in cleaning, construction and demolition, inspection, machine tending, surgical assistance, and welding, among others. But it doesn’t include ATMs, computer numerical control (CNC) machine equipment, or self-service kiosks.

Get the extended data here and the compiled Google Sheet here.