Robotics market

Market size and growth

Measure
Market revenueShipmentsInstallationsInstalled baseUnit salesProduction unitsPriceRobot density
MeasureRobot density
Market revenueShipmentsInstallationsInstalled baseUnit salesProduction unitsPriceRobot density

Industrial arms, World: 177 robots per 10,000 employees (2024)

  • Robots per 10,000 employeesIndustrial arms · World
    • 201899
    • 2019113
    • 2020126
    • 2021141
    • 2022151
    • 2023162
    • 2024177

Dashed lines and marked values are forecasts. Every measure is shown on its own: values of different measures are never added.

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Funding by month

Round types
VentureGrantDebtPost-IPOOther
Round typesGrant +1
VentureGrantDebtPost-IPOOther
Adjacent markets
DronesDefense and securityHome robotsAutonomous road vehicles
Adjacent marketsDrones +2
DronesDefense and securityHome robotsAutonomous road vehicles

Grant, Other inside the market boundary — 2024: $711M in 119 rounds · 2025: $928M in 71 rounds · 2026 (year to date): $2.1B in 85 rounds. Adjacent markets: Drones $192M · Home robots $27.8M · Autonomous road vehicles $545M

Columns: the round classes chosen, inside the market boundary; adjacent markets are separate lines, not part of the columns. Sums include rounds with a disclosed amount only. Oct 2026: data to 24 Oct 2026.

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Latest rounds

All rounds

The 10 newest rounds of $20M or more, 6 Aug 2026 to 6 Oct 2026.

  1. Doosan Robotics$51M
    6 Oct 2026 · Grant · South Korea
  2. Bright Machines$106M
    5 Oct 2026 · Other · United States
  3. Origin$20M
    Oct 2026 · Other · United States · Accel, Zacua Ventures, Unilazer and 2 more
  4. Chemify Limited$29.7M
    17 Sep 2026 · Grant · United Kingdom · UK Government, Scottish Enterprise
  5. Planted$31.8M
    16 Sep 2026 · Other · United States
  6. Vecna Robotics$31M
    15 Sep 2026 · Other · United States
  7. Watney$80M
    Sep 2026 · Other · United States
  8. Reframe Systems$40M
    31 Aug 2026 · Other · United States
  9. Generalist$200M
    25 Aug 2026 · Other · United States · 8VC, NVIDIA, Bezos Expeditions and 5 more
  10. NavVis≈$81M
    6 Aug 2026 · Other · Germany · Cipio Partners, The Jordan Company (TJC), KOZO KEIKAKU ENGINEERING Inc. (KKE) and 1 more

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Search demand

MarketUnited States (English)

Google searches in United States (English), last 12 months: Robots: head terms 4,629,230 · Humanoid robots 2,844,610 · Home robots 2,234,100

  • Robots: head terms4,629,230 +11%
  • Humanoid robots2,844,610 +6.2%
  • Home robots2,234,100 +12%
  • Exoskeletons880,230 +12%
  • Industrial arms793,980 +1.4%

Monthly searches by keyword group; keywords that Google counts as one series are counted once. Growth: the last 12 months against the 12 before.

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Rising on social media

Trend window
1 day7 days

Posts of the last 7 days against the 7 days before: Reddit 19 Oct 2026 – 25 Oct 2026

  1. Tesla Optimus+148%
    Models · 52 posts against 21
  2. Tesla+143%
    Brand · 68 posts against 28
  3. Unitree+124%
    Brand · 74 posts against 33
  4. NVIDIA robotics+89%
    Brands · 70 posts against 37
  5. Robot actuators+58%
    Technology · 19 posts against 12
  6. NVIDIA Jetson+44%
    Technology · 26 posts against 18
  7. Robot arms+38%
    Robot types · 69 posts against 50
  8. Physical AI+37%
    Technology · 74 posts against 54
  9. Robot servos+29%
    Technology · 36 posts against 28
  10. Grippers and end effectors+20%
    Robot types · 18 posts against 15

Topics, models and brands with at least 20 posts in the two periods, fastest growth first; the platforms are added up.

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Segments

All segments

16,308 robotics companies; venture inside the market boundary: 1,180 rounds of $40.3B in 2024–2026.

Humanoids raised the most: $12.1B in 193 rounds, $96.4M a round on average, with 829 companies. Industrial arms has the most companies, 1,947, and raised $867M.

Segments of the market

Adjacent markets, outside the money totals

Segments of the market: venture rounds inside the market boundary; adjacent markets: their own venture rounds. Average round: the sum of the rounds that state an amount, divided by those rounds. Segments overlap — a company or a round can be in several segments, and companies without a robot type are in none — so the rows do not add up to the whole market.

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