Humanoid robot sales tally hit 7,000 globally last year
The relatively small number contrasts with forecasts for a boom in the coming years, particularly in China, the world's largest industrial-robot market.
Last year, approximately 7,000 humanoid robots were sold globally, according to figures compiled by the International Federation of Robotics. These figures represent a small fraction of the overall robot population, which saw around 542,000 industrial robots installed in 2024 and an estimated 199,000 service robots sold that year.
The majority of the humanoid robots sold were likely purchased by researchers and companies to generate artificial intelligence training data, rather than being utilized for productive work. Carmakers are among the early adopters of humanoid robots, running pilots with a handful of robots in their plants. The International Federation of Robotics, which began collecting humanoid data for the first time in its three-decade record-keeping, expects 90,000 humanoid robots to be shipped this year and another 1.2 million by 2030.
However, the numbers remain a tiny portion of the total robot population, which also includes medical robots classified separately.
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