If a humanoid robot shipped anywhere in the world this year, the odds are overwhelming that it was made in China.
A new report says Chinese manufacturers now account for roughly 97% of global humanoid shipments, a level of dominance that leaves every rival nation as little more than a rounding error.
That figure is startling, yet it only sharpens a trend already well under way. Earlier analysis from Morgan Stanley found that about 90% of the 13,000 to 16,000 humanoids shipped in 2025 came from Chinese firms, while the US, Japan and others remained largely stuck at the prototype stage.
The gap between the leaders and everyone else is enormous. Zhiyuan alone shipped some 5,100 units last year, close to two-fifths of the global total, with Unitree not far behind, whereas American names such as Figure, Tesla and Agility each managed only a few hundred.
Put bluntly, a single Chinese maker can out-ship the entire American field several times over. By Morgan Stanley’s reckoning the top Chinese firm shipped roughly 36 times as many robots as its US counterparts, a chasm that no amount of Silicon Valley hype has yet closed.
