Robotics Insights · Live market data
Who Raised, Who Builds, and Where
Confirmed robotics capital by month, and a live breakdown of who builds what by country and sector. Drawn directly from the Robolist.ai market, not a third-party market report. Free to read, cite, and share.
China leads with 41% of all listed models — ahead of United States and Germany. Industrial Arm is the largest single sector. 46 countries build commercial robots across 30 tracked sectors.
1,067 makers · 3,745 models · 46 countries · 30 sectors · as of 17 Oct 2026
Counts makers and models, including announced ones, with a known country and sector; the homepage counts every active robot.
Where the money went
The running total of robotics capital we can verify, and the makers behind each month.
Confirmed funding rounds announced since January 2017, found in robotics news and company announcements.
In the last 14 days: 103 rounds added and 146 reviewed.
Robotics funding we've recorded
1,165 confirmed rounds over 118 months · 342 from makers not yet in the index
Recorded from January 2017.
Rounds are read from reported funding announcements and company releases. Every round links to where it was reported and shows how many newsrooms independently did. Rounds over $50 million found in the news are held for review until a second newsroom reports them. Press wires, link shorteners and funding databases are not counted as newsrooms. The review screens out loans, secondary sales and lifetime totals. 53 further rounds are recorded but still awaiting review. A month with no cell value recorded no confirmed round — a gap in what we have read, not proof of a quiet month. Coverage is still growing, so earlier months are thinner than the market was. Report a round we missed.
Raised vs shipped → — the same capital set against named customers, and how much of it sits behind a company whose customers anyone can check.
The geography of robotics, by sector
Top 12 countries × top 10 sectorsCell shade = models listed for that country × sector. Hover a cell for both figures.
| Country | Industrial Arm | Warehouse AMR | Cobot | Humanoid | Commercial Cleaning | Research | Home Vacuum & Mop | AGV | Education | Hospitality | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| China | 355 | 219 | 211 | 134 | 118 | 10 | 99 | 73 | 46 | 63 | 210 | 1,538 |
| United States | 81 | 90 | 18 | 39 | 32 | 52 | 29 | 2 | 39 | 15 | 294 | 691 |
| Germany | 149 | 22 | 29 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 1 | 8 | · | 4 | 33 | 285 |
| Japan | 144 | 18 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 24 | · | 1 | 2 | 7 | 39 | 278 |
| South Korea | 16 | 18 | 28 | 8 | 2 | 6 | · | · | 8 | 12 | 19 | 117 |
| Switzerland | 45 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 7 | · | · | · | · | 27 | 101 |
| Italy | 41 | 3 | 4 | 3 | · | 1 | · | 16 | · | · | 13 | 81 |
| France | 8 | 19 | 7 | 4 | · | 5 | · | 7 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 77 |
| Canada | 19 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | · | 7 | 3 | · | 14 | 71 |
| Spain | 1 | 22 | · | 4 | · | 3 | · | 3 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 57 |
| India | 2 | 21 | 5 | · | 1 | 2 | · | · | · | · | 20 | 51 |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 4 | 4 | 7 | · | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 45 |
| Other | 51 | 52 | 40 | 22 | 37 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 114 | 353 |
| Total | 917 | 504 | 388 | 252 | 216 | 137 | 136 | 124 | 118 | 117 | 836 |
How to read this
- Geography is by maker HQ. A robot is attributed to the headquarters country of the company that builds it — not where it's sold or deployed.
- One sector per model. Each model is counted in its primary commercial category. See the methodology for how categories are assigned.
- Active market only. Counts reflect active and announced models from live, non-test company profiles with a known country. Tail countries and sectors are folded into "Other."
Who leads each sector
The countries shipping the most models in each sector, by share of that sector.
Industrial Arm
917 models- China39%
- Germany16%
- Japan16%
Warehouse AMR
504 models- China43%
- United States18%
- Germany4%
Cobot
388 models- China54%
- Germany7%
- South Korea7%
Humanoid
252 models- China53%
- United States15%
- Germany6%
Commercial Cleaning
216 models- China55%
- United States15%
- Germany4%
Research
137 models- United States38%
- Japan18%
- Germany10%
Home Vacuum & Mop
136 models- China73%
- United States21%
- United Kingdom3%
AGV
124 models- China59%
- Italy13%
- Germany6%
Education
118 models- China39%
- United States33%
- South Korea7%
Hospitality
117 models- China54%
- United States13%
- South Korea10%
Payload by sector
median · kgSectors compared
12
2,422 models measured
Highest median
1,200 kg
AGV
Lowest median
4.5 kg
Drone
Top vs bottom
265×
between sector medians
- AGV1200.0 kgn=123 · max 80,000 kg
- AMR (Warehouse)600.0 kgn=462 · max 85,000 kg
- Construction270.0 kgn=32 · max 6,000 kg
- Agricultural207.5 kgn=46 · max 9,000 kg
- Delivery30.0 kgn=77 · max 3,628.7 kg
- Hospitality / Service20.0 kgn=80 · max 635 kg
- Mobile Manipulator16.0 kgn=52 · max 1,750 kg
- Industrial Arm15.0 kgn=851 · max 3,500 kg
- Quadruped12.5 kgn=32 · max 120 kg
- Collaborative Robot10.0 kgn=429 · max 170 kg
- Humanoid9.1 kgn=198 · max 145 kg
- Drone4.5 kgn=40 · max 1,000 kg
Bars show each sector's median; the figure beside each bar is that sector's sample size and its single highest value. Only sectors where this spec denotes the same physical quantity are compared. Values outside a sector's plausible range are excluded and queued for review. Methodology