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MWITA-MFG-2026-012 · Evidence A · P0

IFR counted 295,000 industrial robots installed in China in 2024, 54% of global deployments, with operational stock above two million.

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What this does not establish

China's deployment share is not its share of robot production.

Counterevidence & uncertainty

Operational-stock retirement assumptions affect totals.

What would change the reading

Reconcile with plant-level installed and active assets.

Primary routes

MFG-S004https://ifr.org/worldrobotics/report-2025Open source record →

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