Growth extended to all three categories analyzed in the text. Professional service robots increased by 24%, medical robotics by 19%, and robots intended for the consumer market saw a 37% increase.
Transportation and logistics account for 47% of the professional market.
Transportation and logistics continued to be the primary application for professional service robots, with 117,500 units sold in 2025, a 21% increase over the previous year.
This category represented 47% of the professional market. The equipment is mainly used for internal transport, automation of material flows, and delivery processes.
Direct sales of equipment remained the primary sales model, although the Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) model continued to gain traction. According to IFR, RaaS is already the dominant model in the United States.
Robots for the hospitality industry came in second. This group includes mobile orientation systems, robotic information points used in public spaces, and telepresence solutions.
Professional cleaning robots took third place, with floor cleaning being the main application within this category.
Approximately 7,000 Humanoid Robots Sold:
The report also focuses on the development of the humanoid robot market. Around 7,000 full-size humanoids were sold worldwide in 2025, a category IFR defines in the text as robots over 140 cm tall.
This figure refers to robots intended for commercial and professional applications and excludes robots used exclusively for research and development or entertainment.
Although advances in artificial intelligence, sensors, and control systems have enabled the development of new projects, IFR notes that many current applications remain specialized and that some systems still require human remote operation.
Among the factors hindering wider adoption are safety standards, training and maintenance costs, and the need to provide economic justification for its use, especially in industrial applications.
The report also identifies intuitive programming, object manipulation, cost reduction through economies of scale, and standardization of safety requirements as areas for development.
Consumer robots reach 34.2 million units.
The market for consumer service robots is projected to grow by 37% in 2025, reaching approximately 34.2 million units.
This segment primarily consists of domestic robots intended for the mass consumer market.
Trends identified by the IFR include increased automation of household tasks, the incorporation of artificial intelligence-based functions, and the integration of robots with smart home platforms and devices.
Surgical robots reach 8,400 units.
Medical robotics also registered growth during 2025. Within this market, surgical robots reached 8,400 units sold, representing a 57% increase.
The IFR report identifies them as the main driver of growth within medical robotics and links their evolution to the greater implementation of these systems in clinical practice.
According to the report, the pace from technological development to the commercial deployment of these systems has accelerated over the last decade.
Growth in Key Service Robot Categories:
Data from World Robotics 2026 Service Robots shows double-digit increases in the main categories analyzed during 2025: 24% in professional service robots, 19% in medical robotics, and 37% in consumer robots.
Within the professional market, transportation and logistics maintain the largest share, while the report includes humanoid robots as an emerging market, although it points out that technical, economic, and regulatory limitations still exist to expand their use.
