China’s robotics market is accelerating. According to the Ministry of Commerce, sales of embodied AI robots on major platforms rose 95.1% YoY in July, while exoskeleton devices grew 39.5%, action cameras 24.7%, and robot vacuum cleaners 19.4%.
Robot exports are also expanding rapidly. In the first seven months of 2026, China exported $1.0 billion worth of industrial robots, up 13.2% YoY. In H1, cleaning robots and intelligent bionic robots combined exports reached RMB 18.09 billion $2.5 billion, with industrial robots shipped to 141 countries and regions.