Shanghai-based AgiBot topped global humanoid robot shipments in 2025, with nearly a 38% share, as China’s robotics firms dominated the market, leaving in the dust major U.S. players like Elon Musk’s Tesla. According to Omdia, AgiBot shipped 5,168 humanoid robots last year to lead five other Chinese companies in the research firm’s top 10 list. Unitree Robotics, headquartered in Hangzhou, ranked second with 4,200 humanoids shipped last year, which accounted for 32% of the market. Hong Kong-listed UBTech Robotics, based in Shenzhen, was ranked third with 1,000 units shipped. Leju Robotics, Engine AI and Fourier Intelligence ranked fourth, fifth and sixth in 2025 shipments, according to Omdia.
Shipments worldwide jumped nearly 480% in 2025 to 13,318 units. Omdia projected the volume to reach 2.6 million units in 2035. “Chinese vendors are setting benchmarks in large-scale production, as they have reached thousand-unit shipments in a short period, enabling the deployment of tens of thousands of robots annually,” Omdia Analyst Lian Jye Su said in a report. The 2025 shipment figures reflected how far Chinese manufacturers have pulled ahead in this fast-developing sector. These firms had issued five times as many related patents as the U.S. over the past five years, Morgan Stanley said in its latest Robot Almanac.
By comparison, U.S. robot maker Tesla shipped only 150 units in 2025, which accounted for 1% of the global market, according to Omdia. American firms Figure AI and Agility Robotics also shipped 150 units each last year. The scaled-up production by Chinese manufacturers was driven by a combination of favorable policies, infrastructure support and investments in the public and private sectors, Omdia’s Su said. Embodied intelligence – a branch of AI that operates through a physical body – was identified by the Chinese government as a key future industry for the first time in a work report delivered at the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC) last March. With strong government support, China has witnessed a boom in the humanoid robot sector in recent years, the South China Morning Post reports.
