Industrial robot installations remain above half a million for a fourth year

The global installed base gives embodied AI a substantial deployment surface, even as annual demand varies by region.

Source: International Federation of RoboticsSource date: Sep 25, 20254 min

Key factIFR reported 542,000 installations in 2024 and 4.664 million industrial robots in operation.

What happened

Annual installations exceeded 500,000 for a fourth consecutive year.

Asia represented 74% of new deployments in 2024.

New embodied models can reach an already large automation market.

Deployment density and safety standards will shape how quickly model advances transfer to factories.

Robot installation is not a direct measure of AI capability.
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