Cobots

Market size and growth

Measure

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.

Chart dataData as of 24 Oct 2026CSV XLSX

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, Other inside the market boundary

NEURA RoboticsGermany
Raised
$1.5B
Rounds
2
Last round
Jun 2026
HD Hyundai RoboticsSouth Korea
Raised
$144M
Rounds
1
Last round
Sep 2025
Flexiv RoboticsUnited States
Raised
$100M
Rounds
2
Last round
Mar 2026
VentionCanada
Raised
$90M
Rounds
1
Last round
Jan 2026
Elite RobotsChina
Raised
$87M
Rounds
1
Last round
Mar 2026
ROKAE RoboticsChina
Raised
$70.5M
Rounds
1
Last round
Apr 2024

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

Companies by roleData as of 21 Oct 2026CSV XLSX

Top companiesData as of 24 Oct 2026CSV XLSX

Funding by month

Round types

Venture Grant Debt Post-IPO Other

Adjacent markets

Drones Defense and security Home robots Autonomous road vehicles

Venture, Other inside the market boundary — 2024: $133M in 13 rounds · 2025: $404M in 14 rounds · 2026 (year to date): $1.6B in 12 rounds. Adjacent markets: Autonomous road vehicles $0

Rounds 2024–2026: 39
With a disclosed amount: 30
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.

Chart dataData as of 24 Oct 2026CSV XLSX

Funding by HQ country

Germany $1.5B · China $207M · South Korea $162M

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

Chart dataData as of 24 Oct 2026CSV XLSX

Largest rounds

All rounds of the segment

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

NEURA Robotics$1.4B
13 Jun 2026 · Series C · Germany · Tether, imec.xpand, Schaeffler and 8 more
HD Hyundai Robotics$144M
Sep 2025 · Convertible note · South Korea · Korea Development Bank, KY PE
NEURA Robotics$124M
15 Jan 2025 · Series B · Germany · Lingotto, HV Capital, David Reger and 7 more
Flexiv Robotics$100M
23 Jun 2025 · Series C · United States · GF Xinde Investment Management, Yonggui Fund
Vention$90M
27 Jan 2026 · Series D · Canada · Investissement Quebec
Elite Robots$87M
Mar 2026 · Series D · China
ROKAE Robotics$70.5M
Apr 2024 · Growth · China · National Manufacturing Transformation and Upgrading Fund
慧灵科技(深圳)有限公司$35M
31 Mar 2026 · Corporate round · China · OneRobotics
RobotMeta$14.4M
2 Feb 2026 · Series B · China
coboworx≈$12.5M
5 Jun 2024 · Other · Germany · SquareOne

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

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Investors

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

InterAlpen Partners2 rounds
1 company · rounds of $1.5B · latest Jun 2026
Lingotto2 rounds
1 company · rounds of $1.5B · latest Jun 2026
Amazon1 round
1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026
Bosch1 round
1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026
European Investment Bank1 round
1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026
imec.xpand1 round
1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026
NVIDIA1 round
1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026
Qualcomm1 round
1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026
Qualcomm Technologies1 round
1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026
Schaeffler1 round
1 company · rounds of $1.4B · latest Jun 2026

Venture, Other 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).

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

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

Chart dataData through Sep 2026CSV XLSX

KeywordsData through Sep 2026CSV XLSX

Sales channels

All channels

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

KUKA668 partners
59 countries · 3 countries without a partner · Global: KUKA system partners
OMRON517 partners
51 countries · EMEA: offices and partners (all automation)
FANUC437 partners
9 countries · 2 countries without a partner · Americas: authorized system integrators (FANUC America); Europe: FANUC offices only
ABB238 partners
38 countries · 4 countries without a partner · Global: channel partners with the Robotics offering
Yaskawa169 partners
30 countries · 8 countries without a partner · Global: Motoman partners (Americas) + Yaskawa Europe contacts, Robotics division
Kawasaki146 partners
31 countries · 5 countries without a partner · Global
Doosan Robotics72 partners
33 countries · 5 countries without a partner · Global: dealers
Mitsubishi Electric37 partners
25 countries · 4 countries without a partner · Global: FA offices and distributors carrying robots
DENSO6 partners
2 countries · Americas: partners

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

BrandsData as of 21 Oct 2026CSV XLSX

Partners by countryData as of 21 Oct 2026CSV XLSX