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2027 edition · October 2026 · Methodology
390 records: Current 100 / Next 100 / Influence 50 / Ecosystem Builders 50 / Institutions 50, plus 20 countries and 20 cities. Record details and exports use the English edition.
2027 edition · 20 countries
The United States brings general-purpose models and robotics platforms into named customer tasks, supported by growth capital and operating records.
IFR 2025 installation data, operating and customer records, technical platforms, completed financing and operating permissions.
China combines sensing, robot hardware and electronics manufacturing with product development and dense supply chains. Industrial-robot demand supports this manufacturing base.
IFR 2025 industrial-robot installations and domestic supplier share; manufacturer and customer records; research, financing, testing and shared development infrastructure.
Korea combines research investment with NAVER's cloud-based robot coordination, KAIST's learned locomotion control and university-led robotics commercialization.
NAVER's internal operations; KAIST's July 2026 HOUND experiments and February 2026 report on technology-transfer and investment activity. The March 2026 testbed demonstration and planned external access retain separate stages. Economy-wide research indicators provide context.
Japan brings perception and motion generation into established manufacturing processes, building on robotics and precision-control capabilities.
JARA calendar-2025 production and shipments, IFR installations, robot-control and customer records. JARA includes dedicated manipulators; production and installation measures retain separate definitions.
Germany brings industrial customers, intelligent integration providers and external testing and approval into the same deployment pathway.
Manufacturing demand, customer-process integration, industrial fleets and testing services. Overseas customer installations retain their operating locations.
The United Kingdom develops local robotics models and robot-learning hands through documented joint development.
Driving trials, DEX-EE and DemoStart research, model development, financing and reusable tools. Joint international research retains shared attribution.
Switzerland’s ANYmal brings learned control into industrial inspection workflows.
Learned inspection and locomotion, research-to-product transfer, institutional and financial context, with development and customer sites separately attributed.
France provides open robot-learning tools and develops general-purpose manipulation models alongside hardware integrations.
Warehouse implementations, robot-learning tools, manufacturing integration, financing and testing access. Joint French-US development retains shared attribution.
Canada develops physical manipulation learning, industrial tools and truck-OEM integration through distinct product pathways.
Industrial robot suppliers, shared research assets and supervised freight development. Waterloo and Toronto activity retain separate locations.
Taiwan combines semiconductor fabrication and packaging with R&D, robotics investment and industrial testing infrastructure.
NSTC 2024 R&D expenditure; TSMC fabrication and packaging; electronics and robotics records; ITRI testing and incubation infrastructure.
Denmark supplies AMRs for transport and collaborative robots for AI greenhouse harvesting, with named customer tasks.
UR and MiR platform supply, Odense development infrastructure, DTI incubation and Danish industry records. National turnover and local cluster activity retain separate scopes.
Sweden connects robotics research and industrial tasks through WARA Robotics and WASP doctoral training, alongside ABB development, ISO standards work and Hexagon's humanoid programme.
WARA's December 2024 industry-linked challenge and WASP's May 2026 graduate statistic; domestic ABB development and multinational Hexagon activity retain their locations. The new ABB campus is scheduled for 2027.
Singapore brings foreign robot hardware into power-tunnel inspection through local integration and operation.
Power-tunnel inspection, retail integration, local operators, research and institutional context; country and cluster profiles cross-reference shared events.
The Netherlands combines a documented warehouse-automation installation with an automation-finance role serving an overseas site.
ASML equipment and R&D, domestic warehouse integration, testing services and separately located overseas automation finance.
Israel develops observation-based physical manipulation and driver-assistance technology, supported by research investment and national AI computing access for academia and industry.
Manipulation development, eyes-on SuperVision assistance and acquisition records. January 2026 national computing infrastructure is operational; accelerator allocations extend over subsequent years.
Australia hosts autonomous construction at a solar site and shared physical testing by public research teams.
Komatsu's September 2025 Australian operating fleet, Rio Tinto Pilbara rail and drilling, and a separately staged construction pilot.
Italy’s industrial robotics integration extends into Comau’s AI-enabled warehouse testing and validation for the European MASTERLY project.
IFR manufacturing installations, Italian automation supply and European testing infrastructure. Comau reported Decathlon warehouse validation on 9 September 2026; the customer warehouse location is not established by that release.
Spain hosts Barcelona robotics-platform development and an AI inspection development site.
Barcelona robot engineering, manufacturing robot demand, customer integration and shared European testing resources.
1X’s April 2024 announcement describes development of a Moss, Norway facility linking engineering, actuator manufacture, robot assembly and testing.
Company-reported manufacturing development in Moss, Norway, announced 2 April 2024. The cited announcement does not establish completion or current operating capacity.
The UAE brings external autonomous-driving technology into local transport services. Dubai passenger-operation records support its adoption and operations role.
Dubai RTA’s passenger-service report dated 19 August 2026. Operational figures relate to the service period stated in that report; announced expansion and the 2030 transport target remain prospective.
2027 edition · October 2026 · Revision 2026-10-11
