IDC's global humanoid robot tracker shows shipments approached 25,000 units in
1H 2026, a 432.1% YoY rise, indicating a shift from technical validation to
commercial deployment. Use cases are expanding into industrial manufacturing,
retail, transport and logistics, leisure and tourism, and consumer home use,
while competition is shifting from hardware performance to comprehensive
embodied intelligence capabilities. IDC forecasts shipments will exceed 750,000
units by 2030, signaling acceleration into large-scale adoption.
