IFR has a total of 50 members and offers three different categories of membership. Every application for membership needs a three-quarters approval of the Executive Board.
Industry Association Member
An Industry Association member shall be a national or supra-national association representing robot manufacturers or integrators in the respective geographical area. From each geographical area only one association can be an Industry Association member. An Industry Association member representing a geographical area with more than 10,000 operational industrial robots (category a) is supposed to send two representatives to the IFR General Assembly. An Industry Association member representing a geographical area with less than 10,000 operational industrial robots (category b) is supposed to send one representative to the IFR General Assembly.
Annual membership fee:
- 3,500 EUR (category a)
- 1,500 EUR (category b)
R&D Institute Member
A university, research centre or an organisation, undertaking, as a major focus of its work, research and development activities in the field of robotics.
Annual membership fee:
- 1,200 EUR