Industrial Robot Makers by Company

The global operational stock has more than tripled since 2013, passing 4.66 million robots in 2024, with installations above half a million units every year since 2021.

2023 vs 2024 installations. China installed 295,000 robots in 2024, a record 54 percent of the world total; every other top-five market declined.

Domestic manufacturers crossed half of the world's largest robot market in 2024, up from roughly 28 percent for the prior decade. This is the sector's most consequential share shift.

A3 order statistics: the 2022 record, the 2023-24 correction, and the 6.6 percent recovery in 2025. Orders lead installations at cycle turns.

The labor-scarcity bid in one chart: openings remain historically elevated while hires keep falling. Plants that cannot hire buy automation instead.

Electrical and electronics reclaimed the 2024 lead at 128,899 units, just ahead of automotive. Metal and machinery set a record. This is a customer-industry view, not a country ranking.

Asia took about three quarters of 2024 installations. 2014-2023 figures are rounded thousands from the IFR chart; 2024 uses unrounded totals. Country rankings sit on a different card.

Cobots were 64,500 units in 2024, 12 percent of industrial robot installations. The IFR does not restate the 2020 unit count in the 2025 executive summary, so this is a mix, not a time series.

Observed installations for 2022-2024, then the IFR outlook of about 575,000 in 2025 and 700,000 by 2028. 2026 and 2027 are omitted because the executive summary does not quantify them.