Overview
This report covers the global market for fixed industrial robots, with 2025 base-year data, 2022-2024 historical data and five-year forecasts to 2030. The Standard edition analyzes robot type, industry, application and payload in parallel by region, including revenue, shipments, ASP/ARPU, supplier shares and key trend analysis. The Premium edition adds country-level tertiary analysis across 16 countries/regions, including country x robot type x industry x payload granularity and a mid-year forecast update.
This eighth-edition market report covers fixed industrial robots used in manufacturing and logistics environments, including revenues, shipments, ASP/ARPU, supplier shares, robot type, payload, industry, application and country/region segmentation.
Key Questions Answered
The report focuses on the questions clients most often ask about market size, growth opportunities, technology impacts and the competitive landscape.
Global market size and short-term outlook
What was the size of the global industrial robot market in 2025? What is the short-term prediction for 2026/2027, and how fast will the market grow over the next five years?
Highest-opportunity industries and applications
Which industry and application segments offer the greatest opportunity, and how does this vary by region and country?
AI and reshoring impacts
How will artificial intelligence affect the global industrial robot market, and will reshoring of manufacturing impact robot demand?
Leading suppliers and competitive landscape
Who were the leading suppliers of industrial robots, and how does this vary by region and robot type?
Collaborative robot growth potential
What is the growth potential for collaborative robots, and how will this technology impact existing industrial robot product offerings?
Market Size and Forecast Segmentations
The report uses revenues, shipments and ASP/ARPU as core metrics. Standard provides parallel segmentations by region, while Premium adds layered market sizing by country x robot type x industry x payload and regional application splits.
Region and supplier shares
- By region
- EMEA
- Americas
- Asia Pacific
- Supplier market shares
- By robot type
- By major region
Country / region
- EMEA
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- UK
- Eastern Europe
- Rest of EMEA
- Americas
- US
- Canada
- Mexico
- Rest of Latin America
- APAC
- China
- Japan
- South Korea
- India
- Rest of APAC
Robot type
- Articulated
- Cartesian
- Collaborative
- Delta
- SCARA
Industry
- Automotive
- Auto OEM
- Parts Supplier
- Chemical & Pharmaceutical
- Electric & Electronics
- Food & Beverage
- Metal
- New Energy
- Battery Manufacturing
- PV
- Wind Power
- Others
- Plastics & Rubber
- Semiconductor & FPD
- Logistics
- Others
Payload and application
- Articulated payload
- <10kg
- 11-80kg
- 81-300kg
- >300kg
- Collaborative / SCARA payload
- <5kg
- 5-9kg
- 10-20kg
- >20kg
- Application
- Welding: arc welding, spot welding
- Material Handling
- Painting
- Cleanroom
- Assembly
- Palletizing & Depalletizing
- Others
Analyst Team
As a market analyst based in China, Samantha supports the Industrial Automation sector. She holds a master’s degree in Economics and has experience conducting market research in industrial equipment and automobile components while working in Germany.
Maya has an interdisciplinary technical background in vehicle electrification, system automation and robotics. Based in China, she leads Li-ion battery and forklift research and covers industrial and collaborative robots.
Tim is Chief Research Officer at Interact Analysis. He uses his 20+ years of experience to develop best-in-class research for the manufacturing sector and is a frequent speaker on research topics at conferences and industry trade shows.