https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-robotics/german-robotics-sales-growth-to-slow-after-record-2017-idUSKCN1J10Z2 >German sales of robotics and automation equipment, an engine of the country's export-led economy, are expected to shrug off growing tensions over international trade to rise by 9 percent this year after notching up record growth in 2017.