AgiBot is shipping more humanoid robots than anyone. The analysts can’t agree on how many.
Three research firms say AgiBot leads the world in humanoid shipments. Each with a different number for how big that lead is.
On October 2, 2026, a robotics-industry trade publication reported that AgiBot shipped more than 8,600 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026, outselling every other manufacturer in the category.
The publication cited data from the research firm International Data Corporation, which credited AgiBot with roughly 35 percent of a global market IDC says reached nearly 25,000 units in the same six months. IDC put that total 432 percent above the same period a year earlier.
The chart carrying those numbers ran under a caption reading “IDC data supplied to RoboticsAndAutomationNews.com by Agibot.” The figure reached readers by way of the company it favors, not from an IDC report anyone outside it can open.
Nothing in the material AgiBot circulated says whether a “shipment” counts a paid order, a pilot placement, or a unit built for AgiBot’s own demonstrations.
AgiBot does not sell to individual buyers. The company said it built its 20,000th robot in September 2026. Most of its new units are going into commercial roles, not homes.
More than 300 of its humanoids greet and guide visitors at Chimelong Spaceship Park, a theme park near Guangzhou. A hundred of its X2 model handle customer-service tasks across ASD retail stores. The Lingxi X2, the AgiBot model in Robovations’ database, is still sold only through a developer and research-access program, not at retail.
AgiBot’s first-place finish is not contested; every account agrees on that much. The size of the market, and the size of AgiBot’s lead in it, depends on who is counting.
Counterpoint Research, cited in an earlier report from the same trade publication, put AgiBot at about 9,700 units and 43 percent of a market topping 22,000. The research firm Smart Analytics Global, cited in a separate trade-press report in August, put AgiBot at roughly 8,400 units and 44 percent of a market near 19,100.
None of the three firms publishes the shipment logs behind its number. A reader cannot check any of the three figures against an invoice, a customs record or a regulatory filing. Only against each other, and against each other they disagree by thousands of units for the same six months.
