Industrial arms

Market size and growth

Measure
Market revenueShipmentsInstallationsInstalled baseProduction unitsRobot density
MeasureRobot density
Market revenueShipmentsInstallationsInstalled baseProduction unitsRobot density
Geography of the chartWorld

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

  • Robots per 10,000 employeesWorld
    • 201899
    • 2019113
    • 2020126
    • 2021141
    • 2022151
    • 2023162
    • 2024177
  • Robots per 10,000 employeesEurope
    • 2024148
  • Robots per 10,000 employeesChina
    • 2021322
  • Robots per 10,000 employeesGermany
    • 2024449
  • Robots per 10,000 employeesJapan
    • 2024446
  • Robots per 10,000 employeesSouth Korea
    • 20211,000
    • 20241,220

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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Companies

All 1,947 companies

1,947 robotics companies in the segment. By role: Integrator 1,274 · Machine builder 734 · Robot maker 418.

Robotics companies
1,947

Raised the most in the segment · Grant, Debt inside the market boundary

  • MujinJapan
    Raised
    $99.6M
    Rounds
    1
    Last round
    Dec 2025
  • VentionCanada
    Raised
    $20M
    Rounds
    1
    Last round
    Jan 2026
  • GoLe RoboticsSouth Korea
    Raised
    $440K
    Rounds
    1
    Last round
    Aug 2024
  • Graph TechnologiesDenmark
    Raised
    $42K
    Rounds
    1
    Last round
    Nov 2024

A company has up to three roles: the role bars do not add up to the companies of the segment.

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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, Debt inside the market boundary — 2024: $482K in 5 rounds · 2025: $99.6M in 1 rounds · 2026 (year to date): $20M in 1 rounds. Adjacent markets: Drones $0 · Defense and security $0 · Autonomous road vehicles $0

Rounds 2024–2026
7
With a disclosed amount
4
Raised 2024–2026
$120M

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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Funding by HQ country

Japan $99.6M · Canada $20M · South Korea $440K

Grant, Debt inside the market boundary; rounds without a known HQ country are left out.

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Largest rounds

All rounds of the segment

$99.6M the largest; the 4 largest add up to $120M.

  1. Mujin$99.6M
    1 Dec 2025 · Debt · Japan · NTT, Inc., Qatar Investment Authority, NTT Group
  2. Vention$20M
    27 Jan 2026 · Debt · Canada
  3. GoLe Robotics$440K
    9 Aug 2024 · Grant · South Korea · TIPS Program
  4. Graph Technologies$42K
    26 Nov 2024 · Grant · Denmark

Grant, Debt inside the market boundary: the same rounds as the chart above.

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Investors

7 investors in the rounds of the segment; the 7 with the most rounds.

  1. NTT Group1 round
    1 company · rounds of $99.6M · latest Dec 2025
  2. NTT, Inc.1 round
    1 company · rounds of $99.6M · latest Dec 2025
  3. Qatar Investment Authority1 round
    1 company · rounds of $99.6M · latest Dec 2025
  4. TIPS Program1 round
    1 company · rounds of $440K · latest Aug 2024
  5. Clean Cities ClimAccelerator1 round
    1 company · latest May 2024
  6. Innovaud1 round
    1 company · latest Feb 2024
  7. Plug and Play1 round
    1 company · latest Oct 2024

Grant, Debt inside the market boundary. The sum is of the whole rounds an investor took part in, not of its share.

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Robot models

All 686 models

686 models: 685 with our characteristics, 11 with shop prices.

Models
686
With specifications
685
With shop prices
11
  • Payload, kg 611 models · median 12 kg · middle half 6–84 kg · range 0.5–2,300 kg
  • Reach, mm 539 models · median 1,498 mm · middle half 800–2,602 mm · range 200–4,683 mm
  • Repeatability, mm 510 models · median 0.05 mm · middle half 0.02–0.08 mm · range 0.005–0.5 mm
  • Median shop price, USD 11 models · median $14,425 · middle half $9,995–$20,372 · range $3,990–$61,900

A box is the middle half of the models and its line the median, on an axis from the smallest to the largest value. Shop prices of 25 Oct 2026.

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Search demand

MarketUnited States (English)

Google searches in United States (English), last 12 months: 431,340 (+13% on the 12 months before).

  1. robot arm234,400 +8.4%
    Same series: robotic arm
  2. industrial robot121,300 +37%
    Same series: industrial robots
  3. scara robot24,900 -2%
  4. delta robot17,700 +8.1%
  5. industrial robot arm17,300 +14%
  6. 6 axis robot arm8,250 -18%
  7. robot arm for sale3,600 -30%
  8. used robot arm1,250 +13%
  9. robot arm price890 -29%
  10. used industrial robots880 -11%

Keywords of the segment; keywords that Google counts as one series are counted once.

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Sales channels

All channels

2,378 partners of 12 brands with official partner lists; most in United States 717 · Germany 197 · Italy 148.

  1. KUKA668 partners
    59 countries · 3 countries without a partner · Global: KUKA system partners
  2. OMRON517 partners
    51 countries · EMEA: offices and partners (all automation)
  3. FANUC437 partners
    9 countries · 2 countries without a partner · Americas: authorized system integrators (FANUC America); Europe: FANUC offices only
  4. ABB238 partners
    38 countries · 4 countries without a partner · Global: channel partners with the Robotics offering
  5. Yaskawa169 partners
    30 countries · 8 countries without a partner · Global: Motoman partners (Americas) + Yaskawa Europe contacts, Robotics division
  6. Kawasaki146 partners
    31 countries · 5 countries without a partner · Global
  7. Doosan Robotics72 partners
    33 countries · 5 countries without a partner · Global: dealers
  8. Yamaha60 partners
    58 countries · 1 country without a partner · Global: overseas sales network
  9. Mitsubishi Electric37 partners
    25 countries · 4 countries without a partner · Global: FA offices and distributors carrying robots
  10. Epson25 partners
    29 countries · 3 countries without a partner · Europe: local service and support partners
  11. DENSO6 partners
    2 countries · Americas: partners
  12. Stäubli3 partners
    4 countries · Global: Robotics division units and partners

Partners from the brands' official lists; a partner listed for several countries counts in each.

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