Cobots

Market size and growth

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Market revenueInstallations
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Geography of the chartWorld

Cobots, World: $1.4B (2025)

  • Market revenue, USDWorld
    • 2021$600M
    • 2025$1.4B
    • 2029$5.8Bforecast
  • Market revenue, USDChina
    • 2025$411M
  • CAGRChina
    • 2025–203032%forecast

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 1,284 companies

1,284 robotics companies in the segment. By role: Integrator 808 · Machine builder 389 · Distributor 371.

Robotics companies
1,284

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

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

Venture, Grant inside the market boundary — 2024: $113M in 11 rounds · 2025: $403M in 13 rounds · 2026 (year to date): $1.7B in 11 rounds. Adjacent markets: Drones $0 · Defense and security $1.6M

Rounds 2024–2026
35
With a disclosed amount
26
Raised 2024–2026
$2.2B

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

Germany $1.5B · South Korea $213M · China $207M

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

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Largest rounds

All rounds of the segment

$1.4B the largest; the 10 largest add up to $2.1B.

  1. NEURA Robotics$1.4B
    13 Jun 2026 · Series C · Germany · Tether, imec.xpand, Schaeffler and 8 more
  2. HD Hyundai Robotics$144M
    Sep 2025 · Convertible note · South Korea · Korea Development Bank, KY PE
  3. NEURA Robotics$124M
    15 Jan 2025 · Series B · Germany · Lingotto, HV Capital, David Reger and 7 more
  4. Flexiv Robotics$100M
    23 Jun 2025 · Series C · United States · GF Xinde Investment Management, Yonggui Fund
  5. Vention$90M
    27 Jan 2026 · Series D · Canada · Investissement Quebec
  6. Elite Robots$87M
    Mar 2026 · Series D · China
  7. ROKAE Robotics$70.5M
    Apr 2024 · Growth · China · National Manufacturing Transformation and Upgrading Fund
  8. Doosan Robotics$51M
    6 Oct 2026 · Grant · South Korea
  9. 慧灵科技(深圳)有限公司$35M
    31 Mar 2026 · Corporate round · China · OneRobotics
  10. RobotMeta$14.4M
    2 Feb 2026 · Series B · China

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

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Investors

65 investors in the rounds of the segment; the 10 with the most rounds.

  1. InterAlpen Partners2 rounds
    1 company · rounds of $1.5B · latest Jun 2026
  2. Lingotto2 rounds
    1 company · rounds of $1.5B · latest Jun 2026
  3. Amazon1 round
    1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026
  4. Bosch1 round
    1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026
  5. European Investment Bank1 round
    1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026
  6. imec.xpand1 round
    1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026
  7. NVIDIA1 round
    1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026
  8. Qualcomm1 round
    1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026
  9. Qualcomm Technologies1 round
    1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026
  10. Schaeffler1 round
    1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026

Venture, Grant 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 181 models

181 models: 160 with our characteristics, 40 with shop prices.

Models
181
With specifications
160
With shop prices
40
  • Payload, kg 153 models · median 6 kg · middle half 3–12 kg · range 0.5–170 kg
  • Reach, mm 145 models · median 946 mm · middle half 800–1,300 mm · range 320–2,790 mm
  • Repeatability, mm 123 models · median 0.05 mm · middle half 0.03–0.05 mm · range 0.01–10 mm
  • Median shop price, USD 40 models · median $17,687 · middle half $10,721–$24,865 · range $2,081–$44,900

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: 189,880 (-15% on the 12 months before).

  1. cobot91,000 +3.9%
  2. universal robots58,400 -34%
  3. collaborative robot33,500 -1.5%
    Same series: collaborative robots
  4. cobot welding5,820 -47%
  5. cobot price780 -36%
  6. ur5e price380 -30%

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

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Sales channels

All channels

2,290 partners of 9 brands with official partner lists; most in United States 710 · Germany 195 · Italy 144.

  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. Mitsubishi Electric37 partners
    25 countries · 4 countries without a partner · Global: FA offices and distributors carrying robots
  9. DENSO6 partners
    2 countries · Americas: partners

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

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