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# The world's operational stock of industrial robots rose 8.9% to 4.66 million in 2024
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/industrial-robot-operational-stock/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:25:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:02:24.000Z
- Description: 4.66 million industrial robots were in operation worldwide in 2024, up 8.9% from 4.28 million in 2023 and 3.8 times the 2012 stock of 1.24 million.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, Robotics, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-robotics, #industry-manufacturing

4.66M

▲ 8.9% vs 2023

industrial robots in operation worldwide, 2024

20122024

## What the chart shows

The operational stock counts industrial robots in use, as opposed to new installations. It reached 4.66 million in 2024, up 8.9% from 4.28 million in 2023.

The stock has grown every year in the series, from 1.24 million in 2012, and is now 3.8 times that level. It grew by 382,000 in 2024 and 378,000 in 2023, fewer than the robots installed in each of those years ([installations chart](https://aiadoption.org/data/industrial-robot-installations/)).

## Key numbers

| Measure                | Value     |
| ---------------------- | --------- |
| 2024                   | 4,664,000 |
| 2023                   | 4,282,000 |
| 2012                   | 1,235,000 |
| Increase, 2023 to 2024 | 382,000   |

## How to read it

- Operational stock is the IFR’s estimate of industrial robots in service.
- 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 4.5.2: *Operational stock of industrial robots 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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