Robotics market

Market size and growth

Measure
Market revenueShipmentsInstallationsInstalled basePrice
MeasureInstallations
Market revenueShipmentsInstallationsInstalled basePrice

Cobots, World: 64,542 units (2024) · Industrial arms, World: 603,000 units (2025)

  • Installations, unitsCobots · World
    • 201711,107
    • 202464,542
  • Growth rateCobots · World
    • 202413%
  • Installations, unitsIndustrial arms · World
    • 2018423,321
    • 2019386,859
    • 2020389,525
    • 2021513,072
    • 2022552,946
    • 2023541,151
    • 2024542,000
    • 2025603,000
    • 2026655,000forecast
    • 2028704,000forecast

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 typesVenture +2
VentureGrantDebtPost-IPOOther
Adjacent markets
DronesDefense and securityHome robotsAutonomous road vehicles
Adjacent marketsDrones +1
DronesDefense and securityHome robotsAutonomous road vehicles

Venture, Grant, Debt inside the market boundary — 2024: $6.7B in 367 rounds · 2025: $11.3B in 481 rounds · 2026 (year to date): $23.1B in 473 rounds. Adjacent markets: Drones $4B · Home robots $1.5B

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, 17 Sep 2026 to 22 Oct 2026.

  1. Maxinsights$30M
    22 Oct 2026 · Seed
  2. CMR Surgical$400M
    12 Oct 2026 · Corporate round · United Kingdom · Stryker
  3. Mecka$60M
    8 Oct 2026 · Series B
  4. Multiply Labs$75M
    6 Oct 2026 · Series B · United States
  5. Doosan Robotics$51M
    6 Oct 2026 · Grant · South Korea
  6. RobCo$40M
    5 Oct 2026 · Series C · Germany
  7. AMP$70M
    1 Oct 2026 · Debt · United States
  8. RobotPlusPlus$50M
    1 Oct 2026 · Series C · China
  9. Maven Robotics$100M
    28 Sep 2026 · Series A · United States · RoboStrategy
  10. D-Robotics$400M
    17 Sep 2026 · Series C · China · a leading global internet company

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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 18 Oct 2026 – 24 Oct 2026

  1. Tesla Optimus+267%
    Models · 55 posts against 15
  2. Tesla+213%
    Brand · 72 posts against 23
  3. Robot actuators+144%
    Technology · 22 posts against 9
  4. Unitree+112%
    Brand · 72 posts against 34
  5. NVIDIA robotics+70%
    Brands · 63 posts against 37
  6. Sim-to-real+50%
    Technology · 12 posts against 8
  7. Robot prices+31%
    Topics · 17 posts against 13
  8. Physical AI+29%
    Technology · 71 posts against 55
  9. Robot servos+25%
    Technology · 35 posts against 28
  10. Robot learning+22%
    Technology · 11 posts against 9

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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