China Robotics: Strategic Industry Landscape 2025

China Robotics 2025: From Policy-Driven Growth to Global Leadership Across Industrial and Service Sectors

China enters 2025 as the world’s largest and most policy-aligned robotics market. Over the past decade, state direction has shifted the sector from import dependence to domestic capability, guided by initiatives such as the 14th Five-Year Plan for the Robot Industry, the Robot and Application Action Plan, and a newly announced state-backed venture program for core components. Digital infrastructure scale has amplified these efforts, enabling rapid integration and adoption.

Growth is now expanding beyond automotive and electronics into food processing, textiles, logistics, healthcare, and agriculture. SMEs are increasingly deploying modular cobots and mobile robots as payback periods shorten. Leading companies illustrate China’s breadth across industrial, service, and consumer robotics: Midea and KUKA in factory automation, DJI in drones, Ecovacs in home robotics, Siasun in industrial systems, and UBTech in humanoid and service platforms. The report benchmarks capabilities and integration strength across these players to highlight where value is accruing in 2025.

China has led global industrial robot installations every year since 2013, accounting for roughly 51% of new units in 2023, with an installed base of an estimated 1.76 million robots. Service robotics is scaling in parallel, from warehouse and last-mile delivery systems to home applications. These scale advantages are reinforcing domestic standards, supplier ecosystems, and export readiness.

Domestic manufacturers are increasingly prominent, capturing around 47% of China’s industrial robot market in 2023, up from under one-third in 2019. This growth reflects sustained policy support and rising performance in manipulators, controllers, and integration know-how.

Why You Should Buy This Report

Gain a strategic view of how China became the world’s largest robotics market and the sectors driving the next phase of growth in 2025. The report connects policy, demand, and technology to actionable insights for suppliers, integrators, and end users across industrial and service robotics. It highlights how installation leadership, domestic supplier maturity, and AI-5G-cloud convergence are reshaping cost structures, performance, and export potential, supporting board-level strategy and portfolio planning.

Research Methodology

This analysis is based on rigorous secondary research from authoritative public sources. Recent developments, policy changes, and competitive dynamics have been thoroughly evaluated to provide a comprehensive, unbiased overview of China’s robotics landscape in 2025.