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 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), 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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Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.
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