Revenue from China’s robotics industry surged 29.5% year-over-year during the first three quarters of 2025, outpacing expectations as the country produced 595,000 industrial robots and 13.5 million service robots—both exceeding the full-year totals for 2024, reports Caixin.
The country’s density of manufacturing robots—measured as the number of robots per 10,000 employees—more than doubled since 2020, rising to 567 units and propelling China from eighth to third in the global ranking, according to Wang Weiming, a senior official at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Wang disclosed the data during the 2025 China Robot Industry Development Conference held on Nov. 11.
The figures reflect rapid growth in a sector now shifting its focus to a more complex challenge: embodied intelligence. At a separate industry forum, investors and executives weighed the path forward as the race intensifies to integrate artificial intelligence with physical capabilities.