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# Collaborative robots made up 12.0% of industrial robot installations in 2024, up from 2.8% in 2017
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/collaborative-robot-installations/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:25:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:02:16.000Z
- Description: 65,000 of the 542,000 industrial robots installed in 2024 were collaborative robots, built to work alongside people: 12.0%, up from 2.8% in 2017. Traditional installations fell to 477,000.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, Robotics, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-robotics, #industry-manufacturing

12.0%

collaborative robots' share of industrial robot installations worldwide in 2024 (65,000 of 542,000)

Installations, 2024

Collaborative65,000

Traditional477,000

## What the chart shows

Collaborative robots are designed to work alongside human operators. 65,000 were installed in 2024, 12.0% of the 542,000 industrial robots installed that year, up from 11,000, or 2.8%, in 2017.

Traditional robots still make up most installations: 477,000 in 2024, down from a high of 495,000 in 2022\. Collaborative installations rose every year except 2023, when they slipped from 58,000 to 57,000.

## Key numbers

| Measure                   | Value   |
| ------------------------- | ------- |
| Collaborative, 2024       | 65,000  |
| Traditional, 2024         | 477,000 |
| Collaborative, 2017       | 11,000  |
| Collaborative share, 2024 | 12.0%   |
| Collaborative share, 2017 | 2.8%    |

## How to read it

- The AI Index text gives the 2024 collaborative share as 13.6%; that is 65,000 divided by traditional installations (477,000). As a share of all installations it is 12.0%, which we use.
- The data file’s total row is left out of the chart; bar totals are the sum of the two types, which can differ by 1,000 from the [installations chart](https://aiadoption.org/data/industrial-robot-installations/) because of rounding.

**Source:** [International Federation of Robotics (IFR)](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#ifr-world-robotics), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.5.3: *Number of industrial robots installed in the world by type, 2017–24*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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