en.Wedoany.com Reported - Data released by the International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that the market size of China's industrial embodied intelligent robots in 2025 reached approximately RMB 5.74 billion. Among this, embodied intelligent applications built on industrial robots accounted for about RMB 3.62 billion, representing the primary direction for commercial deployment in the industry. As the competitive focus shifts from hardware performance to a comprehensive contest of capabilities in models, data, engineering, and scenario deployment, this field is becoming an important pathway in the evolution of intelligent manufacturing.
Industrial embodied intelligent robots are a category of intelligent equipment systems designed for production environments. They integrate artificial intelligence models, multimodal perception, robot control, and hardware bodies to form a closed loop of capabilities spanning perception, learning, decision-making, and execution, enabling autonomous task completion in real industrial scenarios and interaction with personnel and equipment.
In terms of carrier forms, the current market is leveraging multi-form robots to intelligently upgrade production lines and workstations, deeply integrating perception, learning, decision-making, and execution capabilities to drive manufacturing processes toward flexibility and autonomy. Among these, industrial robot carriers dominate the market, encompassing categories such as collaborative robots, compound (mobile manipulation) robots, and multi-joint robots. These products rely on mature industrial foundations, integrating visual perception, force control, environmental understanding, and embodied intelligent models, and are delivered through an integrated approach of "hardware + intelligent software + industry services." They have already been deployed in applications such as loading and unloading, quality inspection, grinding and repair, flexible assembly, and material handling.
New carrier forms, represented by humanoid robots, remain in the exploratory stage for industrial scenarios, with a market size of approximately RMB 2.11 billion in 2025. Applications are concentrated in demonstration production line deployment, scenario validation, and POC testing. Humanoid robots hold potential in terms of morphological versatility and adaptability to complex environments, but their manufacturing costs, reliability, engineering maturity, and actual production efficiency still require further verification, and the paths to technological refinement and commercial deployment remain under exploration.
