Chinese Robot Manufacturers

China installs more industrial robots each year than every other country combined, and domestic makers have steadily taken share from foreign brands in their home market. Estun, Inovance, EFORT and SIASUN supply industrial arms, while AUBO, Elite Robots and Dobot compete in cobots, often well below Western prices.

China also has the largest number of humanoid companies. Unitree, UBTECH, AgiBot, Fourier, Galbot, EngineAI, LimX Dynamics and Astribot ship or pilot humanoids, backed by government-funded innovation centers in Beijing and Shanghai. Chinese makers also lead service robotics by volume, from Pudu and Keenon delivery robots to Roborock and Ecovacs vacuums.

The companies below are headquartered in mainland China. Listing status, product lines and links to our robot reference and coverage are on each profile.

By robot type

• Humanoids: 15
• Autonomous mobile robots: 6
• Service & consumer robots: 6
• Industrial robots: 4
• Cobots: 4
• Quadrupeds: 2

Chinese Robot Manufacturers

• AgiBot — founded 2023 · private — Shanghai humanoid company (Zhiyuan Robotics) founded in 2023 and one of China's highest-volume humanoid makers.
• Astribot — founded 2022 · private — Shenzhen startup (Stardust Intelligence) whose Astribot S1 wheeled humanoid is designed for fast, dexterous household and service tasks learned from human demonstration.
• AUBO Robotics — founded 2015 · private — Beijing-based collaborative robot maker and one of China's early cobot specialists, selling lightweight six-axis arms for assembly, inspection and machine tending.
• Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center — founded 2023 · private — Government- and industry-backed research center (X-Humanoid) set up in Beijing in 2023 to build open humanoid platforms for Chinese industry.
• Booster Robotics — founded 2023 · private — Beijing startup making compact humanoids for developers, research and robot soccer, including the T1 and the smaller K1.
• DEEP Robotics — founded 2017 · private — Hangzhou quadruped maker selling industrial inspection robot dogs for power substations, tunnels and plants, plus lower-cost platforms for research and education.
• Dobot — founded 2015 · 2432.HK — Shenzhen robot maker that started with desktop educational arms and grew into one of China's highest-volume cobot suppliers.
• Dreame Technology — founded 2017 · private — Suzhou consumer-robotics company making robot vacuums and cordless cleaning appliances, a fast-growing brand in the robot vacuum category.
• DroidUp — founded 2021 · private — Shanghai biomimetic robotics company (Zhuoyide) based in Zhangjiang Robotics Valley.
• Ecovacs Robotics — founded 1998 · 603486.SS — Suzhou company making DEEBOT robot vacuums and WINBOT window-cleaning robots, one of China's longest-established consumer robot brands.
• EFORT Intelligent Equipment — founded 2007 · 688165.SS — Chinese industrial robot maker founded with backing from automaker Chery.
• Elite Robots — founded 2016 · private — Chinese collaborative robot maker selling low-cost six-axis cobot lines for assembly, packaging and machine tending in China and export markets.
• EngineAI — founded 2023 · private — Shenzhen humanoid maker known for agile full-size bipeds, including the SE01 and the PM01 developer platform, and for publicly demonstrating highly dynamic motions.
• Estun Automation — founded 1993 · 002747.SZ — One of China's largest domestic industrial robot makers, with its own servo drives and controllers.
• Flexiv — founded 2016 · private — Force-controlled 'adaptive robot' maker with offices in Shanghai and Silicon Valley.
• Fourier — founded 2015 · private — Shanghai company that began in rehabilitation robotics and moved into general-purpose humanoids with the GR-1 in 2023.
• Galbot — founded 2023 · private — Beijing humanoid startup building the G1, a wheeled dual-arm humanoid for retail, pharmacy and factory picking, trained heavily on synthetic simulation data.
• Geek+ — founded 2015 · 2590.HK — Beijing warehouse robotics company and one of the largest suppliers of goods-to-person AMRs worldwide.
• Hai Robotics — founded 2016 · private — Shenzhen company that pioneered autonomous case-handling robots (ACR) — tall mobile robots that climb racking to retrieve totes and cartons.
• Inovance Technology — founded 2003 · 300124.SZ — Chinese industrial-automation and drives company whose SCARA and small six-axis robots have taken significant share in China's electronics and battery industries, built on its own servos and controllers.
• Keenon Robotics — founded 2010 · private — Shanghai maker of delivery robots for restaurants, hotels and hospitals, widely deployed in Asia, Europe and the US.
• Leju Robotics — founded 2016 · private — Shenzhen robotics company that moved from educational robots to full-size humanoids with its Kuavo biped, supplied to research institutions and industrial pilots.
• LimX Dynamics — founded 2022 · private — Shenzhen legged-robot company building humanoids and wheel-legged robots, including the TRON 1 multi-modal biped and the Oli humanoid, focused on reinforcement-learning locomotion.
• Pudu Robotics — founded 2016 · private — Shenzhen service-robot maker and one of the largest suppliers of restaurant delivery and commercial cleaning robots worldwide.
• Quicktron — founded 2014 · private — Shanghai maker of warehouse and factory AMRs, including shelf-to-person robots and autonomous forklifts for e-commerce, automotive and electronics logistics.
• Roborock — founded 2014 · 688169.SS — Beijing maker of robot vacuums and mops, one of the leading brands in the category by sales.
• Shanghai Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center — founded 2024 · private — Shanghai's national-level humanoid innovation center, established in 2024.
• SIASUN Robot & Automation — founded 2000 · 300024.SZ — Shenyang-based robotics company that grew out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Shenyang Institute of Automation.
• UBTECH Robotics — founded 2012 · 9880.HK — Shenzhen robotics company listed in Hong Kong in December 2023.
• Unitree Robotics — founded 2016 · 688836.SS — Hangzhou-based maker of affordable, high-performance legged and humanoid robots — the G1 and H-series humanoids and the Go2 and B2 quadrupeds.
• XPeng — founded 2014 · XPEV — Chinese electric-vehicle maker developing the IRON humanoid robot, which shares AI chips and autonomy software with its cars and is intended for use in XPeng's own factories and stores.

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• US Robot Manufacturers — 28 companies
• Japanese Robot Manufacturers — 11 companies
• German Robot Manufacturers — 5 companies