According to the International Federation of Robotics, Chinese factories installed approximately 295,000 industrial robots in 2024, a record, and about 54 percent of all industrial robots installed worldwide that year. More than two million industrial robots were operating in China by the end of 2024, representing roughly 44 percent of the global total. China also reached 567 industrial robots for every 10,000 manufacturing workers, putting it among the world’s most automated major economies.

China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported that the country produced approximately 773,000 industrial robots during 2025, an increase of 28 percent from the previous year. Thus far in 2026, China has added 31 percent more robots to factories than it did in 2025. Robots are also spreading beyond automobile and electronics factories into industries such as food processing, textiles, and wood products.

China is rapidly transforming from the world’s largest manufacturing center into what may become its most heavily automated one. For decades, Chinese industrial power depended partly on an enormous supply of relatively inexpensive workers producing everything from electronics and automobiles to appliances, machinery, and textiles. Today an increasing number of those workers are being supplemented or replaced by robots. Chinese President Xi Jianping refers to robotics and AI as the ‘new sources of production.’

Automation has become part of Beijing’s larger industrial strategy. China wants robotics, artificial intelligence, advanced semiconductors, and electric vehicles to provide new sources of economic growth while helping manufacturers deal with rising wages and an aging and eventually shrinking workforce. Robotics has been placed near the center of China’s industrial-development plans, and manufacturers are experimenting increasingly with AI-powered and humanoid robots capable of performing more complicated tasks…

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The importance of this transformation is amplified by China’s enormous manufacturing base. China produced 31.8 percent of global manufacturing value added in 2023, more than twice the 15 percent share of the United States. If Chinese factories become dramatically more automated, their productivity could increase while production costs fall. That could make Chinese automobiles, electronics, machinery, and consumer goods even more competitive internationally.

Such a development could place considerable pressure on other countries. Nations hoping that rising Chinese wages would encourage factories to relocate to India, Mexico, Southeast Asia, or elsewhere, may instead discover that automation allows production to remain in China. American, European, Japanese, and Korean manufacturers could consequently accelerate their own investments in robotics.

There are risks for China as well. Automation could eliminate some assembly-line jobs faster than new technical positions are created, potentially intensifying employment pressures. Already a growing number of young people in China struggle to find work or seeing few opportunities, withdraw from the workforce altogether. Either way the impact of growing automation will likely have measurable social and political consequences for China in the next decade. 

Internationally, inexpensive Chinese robots could become another source of trade and security tensions, much as Chinese electric vehicles already have. If China succeeds in combining its immense industrial supply chains with robotics and artificial intelligence, the next stage of globalization may be defined less by where labor is cheapest than by where factories can become most automated, intelligent and productive.

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