Chinese Firms Ship Over 13,000 Humanoid Robots in 2025

Chinese companies shipped more than 13,000 humanoid robots in 2025, representing roughly 85 percent of the global total, according to Omdia data cited by Fortune. AGIBOT and Unitree each delivered over 5,000 units, while U.S. firms Figure AI and Tesla shipped a few hundred or fewer. Morgan Stanley projects Chinese sales will more than double this year to around 28,000 units.

Matrix Robotics, based in Shanghai, has received about 1,000 orders for its MATRIX-3 model priced near $99,000. The firm has delivered several hundred units and expects to reach 5,000 deliveries this year if orders continue. EngineAI in Shenzhen offers a basic model for 180,000 yuan ($26,600) intended for security and museum work.

Unitree reported 1.7 billion yuan in revenue and a profit above 278 million yuan last year.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology counted more than 140 Chinese humanoid manufacturers and 330 models in 2025. Government and state-owned enterprise orders accounted for more than 2 billion yuan of purchases, mainly for power plants, data centers, and entertainment.

Samm Sacks of the New America think tank noted that most units remain limited to structured settings and have not reached broad commercial use. Chibo Tang of Gobi Partners stated that without larger-scale demand, firms cannot move into sustained mass production.

Stanley estimates the average price could fall from $46,000 last year to about $21,000 by 2050. Eric Guo of AI2 Robotics said accumulating sufficient training data from varied environments could take years. Wang Xiaogang of ACE Robotics reported ongoing collection of factory, retail, and office data to improve robot performance.