China Already Dominates Humanoid Robots: 85% of the Market
Watch on YouTube And AP adds that China dominates the global humanoid robot market, with an estimated share close to 85%. That's brutal. In 2025, around 15,000 humanoid robots were shipped worldwide, according to figures cited by AP. Unitree and AgiBot, two Chinese companies, each shipped more than 5,000 units. U.S. companie
And AP adds that China dominates the global humanoid robot market, with an estimated share close to 85%. That’s brutal. In 2025, around 15,000 humanoid robots were shipped worldwide, according to figures cited by AP. Unitree and AgiBot, two Chinese companies, each shipped more than 5,000 units. U.S. companies such as Tesla and Figure AI shipped only a few hundred or fewer. So the ban isn’t being imposed on a hypothetical market. It is happening just as China is learning to manufacture these robots at scale. And that’s the point. The United States isn’t blocking a mature technology for which it already has equivalent local alternatives. It is blocking an industrial learning curve. But it is also blocking its own developers from accessing affordable hardware.
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