How many humanoid robots shipped in 2025: the counted actuals

About 13,000 humanoids shipped worldwide in 2025. That is Omdia's count, published in January 2026. It is the widest scope of the headline counts. The International Federation of Robotics counted about 7,000. Its definition is stricter. Both counts are honest. They count different things. Roughly thirteen thousand machines left factories. Most were Chinese-made. Most are doing research and data work, not shift labor. This page holds every number to one rule: named counter, named date, and a stated verb. The counted table, the makers, and the definitions follow.

The counted numbers, source by source

Every row below is a counted figure, not a forecast. Each carries the counter, the date, and what the counter includes.

The 13,000 row comes from Omdia's ranking of 2025 shipments. It reached the public through AgiBot's own release of January 8, 2026. That release names AgiBot the top shipper, at more than 5,100 units, a 39 percent share. A company release citing a research firm carries a bias, so the bias is named here. Forbes, covering the same Omdia report on January 9, 2026, quoted its precise figure, 13,317 units, up nearly 480 percent from 2024. The 2024 row follows from that growth claim. No house published a 2024 total directly. The count implied by Omdia's own growth rate is about 2,200, and this page marks it implied wherever it appears.

The 7,000 row is stricter by design. The IFR's service robot report, dated September 30, 2026, counted about 7,000 full-size humanoids sold globally in 2025. Full-size means 140 cm and taller, sold for commercial and professional use. The next section shows why that bar drops some of the best selling machines.

Four verbs: produced, shipped, sold, installed

Most of the public confusion about humanoid numbers comes from four verbs used as if they were one. They are not. Produced means made in a factory. Shipped means left the maker. Sold means a paying customer took it, with a scope filter on top. Installed or deployed means it is standing somewhere doing something. Each verb has its own counter, and the gaps between them are the story.

Start with the IFR bar. The IFR definition is a scope, not a verdict. A humanoid must look human. It must work on its own in places built for people. Legs are not required. Consumer and military units are excluded. Only machines 140 cm and taller, sold for commercial and professional use, reach the about 7,000 figure. Now set the bar against real products. Unitree's G1, the standard research humanoid of 2025, stands about 132 cm tall on Unitree's own product page. The best selling research humanoid on Earth does not count in the IFR number. The Unitree R1, sold since 2025 at under 6,000 US dollars and about 1.2 m tall, does not count either. Both count as shipments in Omdia's wider net. That single design choice moves thousands of units between the two headline numbers.

SAG, whose half-year counts anchor the 2026 rows, uses a third scope. It counts what it calls functional embodied humanoids. It excludes toy-class lines such as Aelos and Roban by name. Omdia counts all humanoids shipped. Interact Analysis counts production. Production ran above 20,000 units in 2025, ten times the roughly 2,000 units of 2024. Counterpoint counts installations, about 16,000 added during 2025. China took above 80 percent of them. None of these counters is wrong. Each answers a different question.

The deployed layer checks the shipped layer. Take the implied 2024 count of about 2,200 and add the 2025 shipments of about 13,000. The sum is about 15,200 machines, before subtracting retirements. Morgan Stanley, in June 2026, put the deployed count near 16,000, China above 80 percent. The arithmetic and the estimate land in one band. That arithmetic is ours. The annual layer disagrees more. Goldman Sachs channel checks, reported by CNBC on November 28, 2025, put 2025 shipments above Omdia's count, at 15,000 to 20,000. That is a rival annual count, not a deployed one. Two honest houses, one year, one verb, a real spread. This page ships both and dates both.

Who made the 2025 machines

One maker led by a wide margin. AgiBot shipped more than 5,100 humanoids in 2025, a 39 percent share, per the January 2026 release. Embodied Wire, in a September 28, 2026 note since updated, put the split at AgiBot 5,168, Unitree 4,200, and UBTECH 1,000. Rest of World, on February 5, 2026, found a sharper fact. Nearly 90 percent of humanoids sold globally in 2025 were made by Chinese firms. The six highest-selling companies were all Chinese. The two best known US makers tell the other side. Figure and Agility each shipped roughly 150 units, below every ranking cut.

The China story is real, and it gets quoted in three ways that measure three things. Nearly 90 percent of the machines were Chinese-made in 2025, per Rest of World. Chinese vendors contributed above 97 percent of global shipments in the first half of 2026. China stood above 85 percent of global demand, per SAG. IDC, reported on September 29, 2026, put China above 19,000 of the nearly 25,000 units shipped that half, or 77.9 percent. The carries do not state one counting basis for that share, so this page does not either. Built, shipped, and bought are three verbs again. Pick the wrong one and you misstate the market by twenty points.

What the shipped machines actually do

The counted units are real machines. Most are not doing factory work. The IFR said it plainly in September 2026. Most current applications remain specialized and often require human teleoperation. Safety standards, high training and maintenance costs, and the lack of a strong business case, the IFR wrote, continue to limit widespread use.

The buyers explain the numbers. Reuters, quoting the IFR on September 21, 2026, reported the buyer list. Research institutions bought many 2025 humanoids. So did companies using them to generate training data for AI models. Carmakers, the expected first buyers, run pilots with single digit or sometimes double digit robot counts. Counterpoint's install data says the same. The main uses were data collection, research, and early logistics. Interact Analysis adds the sharpest line. Production grew tenfold in 2025. Real-world use grew just 10 percent, and only about one in ten produced units was deployed. A writer at The Conversation, testing the under 6,000 US dollar R1 in August 2025, noted that much of what we see in humanoid demos is either scripted routines or teleoperation. Shipped is a factory verb. Working is a different verb, with a much smaller number.

The count continues into 2026

About 19,100 humanoids shipped worldwide in the first half of 2026. That is up 272 percent from 5,100 a year earlier, per SAG's August 10, 2026 count. AgiBot shipped about 8,400 of them and took 44 percent of the world market, passing Unitree at about 5,900. Galbot followed at about 900, then UBTECH at about 700 and Leju at about 600. Two makers built about three quarters of every humanoid shipped on Earth in six months.

The half-year also proves the verb lesson all over again. Three houses counted the same six months. SAG said about 19,100 on August 10. Counterpoint said more than 22,000 on August 19. IDC said nearly 25,000, reported September 29 and 30, with the market worth more than 740 million US dollars in the half, up 322.7 percent. Same planet, same six months, a 30 percent spread. Scope did that, not error. The 2026 full-year counts land in early 2027, and the forecast set they will test, from about 60,000 to above 100,000, belongs to the 2026 test year page.

Numbers this page will never conflate

The robot population that already exists is not humanoid. Weak pages mix them up anyway. The IFR counted a record 5 million industrial robots working in factories at the end of 2025. It forecasts 655,000 new installations in 2026. Factories installed more than 600,000 new industrial units in 2025 alone. China took 354,000 of them. Consumer service robots, mostly vacuums and mowers, reached almost 34.2 million units sold in 2025. Against those bases, every humanoid count above is a rounding error. If a headline stacks humanoids against 5 million, it is mixing species.

The actuals discipline

The rule this page follows costs nothing and catches almost everything. Before quoting a humanoid number, ask three questions. Who counted it. When. And what verb does the counter use: produced, shipped, sold, or installed. A number with no date and no verb is marketing, not data.

The discipline matters most with forecasts. Forecasts get revised, and the revisions get forgotten. Omdia said 38,000 units by 2030 in July 2024, when it also wrote that humanoid robot technology remains in its infancy and that large-scale implementation is likely a few years away. Goldman Sachs, in its September 2026 revision, now expects 890,000 units by 2030, up from 256,000. It sees 6.48 million shipped in 2035, worth 138 billion dollars. Bank of America said 1.2 million a year by 2030 in March 2026. The counted layer, about 13,000 in 2025, sits under all of them. The 2026 forecasts run from about 60,000, per SAG, to more than 100,000 from the top three Chinese makers alone, per J.P. Morgan Private Bank on August 14, 2026. Those are the test set. The 2026 test year page owns their scoring. For the 2030 spread and why houses disagree by more than twenty times, read why humanoid forecasts disagree.

If you build robots

Every unit in the counted table still needs a policy, a brain that turns cameras into motor commands. It also needs the data to train that policy. That is the layer this site works in. The buyer profile above means the early demand is training and evaluation, not shift work. An ACT policy trains on a used desktop card in about an hour. The tier 1 builder budget guide prices that path from zero dollars up. A pi 0.5 class policy runs a full manipulation loop. The cost per robot hour page prices a served hour at 6.48 in our October 2026 runs. The per-robot-hour glossary defines the unit. Live hosted rates sit on the pricing page. You can open an account at signup.

Frequently asked questions

Why do the 2025 counts disagree, 7,000 versus 13,000? Scope. The IFR counts full-size humanoids, 140 cm and taller, sold for commercial and professional use, and it excludes consumer and military units. Omdia counts all shipments. The best selling research machines, such as the 132 cm Unitree G1, sit under the IFR bar and inside Omdia's net. Both numbers are honest. Read the scope line before quoting either.

How many humanoid robots exist right now? Counted shipments give a floor. About 2,200 shipped in 2024, about 13,000 in 2025 on the widest scope, and another 19,100 in the first half of 2026. That puts the world past 34,000 shipped humanoids in two and a half years. Deployed-base estimates near 16,000 at mid-2026 suggest many are stored, displayed, or in labs. Exists is a bigger number than works.

Is China really above 97 percent of this market? For shipments in the first half of 2026, SAG puts Chinese vendors above 97 percent of supply. It puts China above 85 percent of demand. For 2025, Rest of World put Chinese makers near 90 percent of units sold. IDC put China at 77.9 percent of the first-half 2026 shipments, on a basis its carries do not state. Three counters, three percentages, one direction.

What is the difference between shipped and deployed? Shipped means the machine left the maker. Deployed means it works at a customer site. Interact Analysis found production up tenfold in 2025 while real-world use grew just 10 percent, with about one in ten produced units deployed. The gap between those two rates is where most demo videos live.

Last verified: 2026-10-26