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# 542,000 industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2024, level with 2023 and below the 2022 peak
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/industrial-robot-installations/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:25:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:02:23.000Z
- Description: 542,000 industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2024, up 0.2% on 2023 and below the 553,000 of 2022. Annual installations are 3.4 times their 2012 level.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, Robotics, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-robotics, #industry-manufacturing

542,000

▲ 0.2% vs 2023

industrial robots installed worldwide in 2024

20122024

## What the chart shows

The International Federation of Robotics counted 542,000 new industrial robot installations worldwide in 2024, up from 541,000 in 2023\. The record remains 553,000 in 2022, after a jump from 390,000 in 2020 to 526,000 in 2021.

Annual installations are 3.4 times their 2012 level of 159,000\. They were between 387,000 and 423,000 a year in 2017–2020 and have been above 520,000 every year since 2021.

## Key numbers

| Measure     | Value   |
| ----------- | ------- |
| 2024        | 542,000 |
| 2023        | 541,000 |
| 2022 (peak) | 553,000 |
| 2021        | 526,000 |
| 2012        | 159,000 |

## How to read it

- Installations are new robots put into service in the year, not the total in use; the [operational stock](https://aiadoption.org/data/industrial-robot-operational-stock/) is charted separately.
- The IFR defines an industrial robot as an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes.
- The IFR revises earlier years, so figures may differ slightly from previous reports. Values are rounded to the nearest thousand.

**Source:** [International Federation of Robotics (IFR)](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#ifr-world-robotics), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.5.1: *Number of industrial robots installed in the world, 2012–24*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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