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5 million industrial robots. The humanoid count begins.

Where AI in robots and machines already sees, picks, inspects and moves, what the market offers and the rules.

v1.2 · 34 pages · 25 Oct 2026 · Edition

Archived edition, preserved unchanged. Contributor and contact credits in this predecessor are superseded; use the current edition and media kit for current authorship and contact. This edition states its own research window, source populations and evidence dates. Those are distinct from current website catalogue coverage. IFR reports 117,000 professional transport and logistics service robots sold worldwide in 2025. This edition prints 117,500 on page 11. Use 117,000; the exact share is not established by the rounded worldwide total. The PDF retains its original bytes until the corrected derivative is issued.

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Archived edition, preserved unchanged. Contributor and contact credits in this predecessor are superseded; use the current edition and media kit for current authorship and contact. This edition states its own research window, source populations and evidence dates. Those are distinct from current website catalogue coverage. IFR reports 117,000 professional transport and logistics service robots sold worldwide in 2025. This edition prints 117,500 on page 11. Use 117,000; the exact share is not established by the rounded worldwide total. The PDF retains its original bytes until the corrected derivative is issued.

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