Robotics market
Market size and growth
Humanoids, World: 18,000 units (2025) · Industrial arms, World: 550,000 units (2025)
- Shipments, unitsHumanoids · World
- 202518,000
- Growth rateHumanoids · World
- 2026228.5%forecast
- Shipments, unitsIndustrial arms · World
- 2024523,000
- 2025550,000
Funding by month
Post-IPO inside the market boundary — 2024: $224M in 9 rounds · 2025: $679M in 12 rounds · 2026 (year to date): $429M in 6 rounds
Latest rounds
All roundsThe 10 newest rounds of $20M or more, 14 May 2025 to 13 Aug 2026.
- VenHub Global$100M13 Aug 2026 · Post-IPO equity · United States
- Aeva$115M4 Jun 2026 · Post-IPO equity · United States
- Serve Robotics$150M14 May 2026 · Post-IPO equity · United States
- 9 Feb 2026 · Post-IPO equity · United States · Master Investment Group
- Nauticus Robotics$254M27 Oct 2025 · Post-IPO equity · United States
- Serve Robotics$100M10 Oct 2025 · Post-IPO equity · United States
- Cyngn$100M5 Sep 2025 · Post-IPO equity · United States · Aegis Capital Corporation
- Aeva$50M29 Jul 2025 · Post-IPO equity · United States · LG Innotek
- Cyngn$32M2 Jul 2025 · Post-IPO equity · United States
- Aeva$50M14 May 2025 · Post-IPO equity · United States
Search demand
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%
Segments
All segments16,308 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
- HumanoidsCompanies829Raised$12.1BRounds 193avg $96.4M
- Mobile robots (AMR/AGV)Companies1,606Raised$6.4BRounds 158avg $52.9M
- Service robotsCompanies1,497Raised$6.1BRounds 135avg $62.4M
- CobotsCompanies1,284Raised$2.2BRounds 31avg $89.6M
- Industrial armsCompanies1,947Raised$867MRounds 42avg $25.5M
Adjacent markets, outside the money totals
- Autonomous road vehiclesCompanies30Raised$30.9BRounds 58avg $672M
- Defense and securityCompanies329Raised$13BRounds 101avg $146M
- DronesCompanies1,388Raised$12BRounds 214avg $71.2M
- Home robotsCompanies404Raised$472MRounds 32avg $24.8M
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.
Rising on social media
Posts of the last 7 days against the 7 days before: Reddit 18 Oct 2026 – 24 Oct 2026
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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