China has a robot density of 166 industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers (2024, measured IFR data), up 16.9% from 142 in 2023. It hosts 31 TOP500 supercomputers. Roboradar24 is tracking 649 automation signals for China.
Data updated 2026-09-21 · refreshed daily
Robot density: IFR World Robotics 2024 (via Our World in Data), refreshed automatically.
Note on China: we publish the IFR/Our World in Data series for
consistency with every other country on this site. IFR's own press releases have cited a substantially higher
density for China (roughly 470 per 10,000) using a different manufacturing-employment denominator. China's
manufacturing workforce base is disputed and has been revised, so figures for China vary widely between
sources — treat this reading as one methodology among several.
Supercomputer count: TOP500 list, June 2026, refreshed automatically — a count of 0 means no system on the current list. AV-fleet figures are modeled estimates pending a live feed.
China's industrial robot density reached 166 robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers in 2024, up from 142 in 2023 — a 16.9% year-over-year increase. That places it #23 of 53 countries we track. Both figures come directly from IFR World Robotics via Our World in Data.
Growth of this kind typically reflects capital investment in automated production lines rather than a shrinking manufacturing workforce — density rises when robot installations outpace employment. Read it alongside the live deployment signals below, which capture the specific installations and contracts driving the trend. On high-performance computing, China has 31 systems on the current TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
Note: the autonomous-vehicle fleet figure shown above is a modeled estimate — no authority publishes verified per-country AV fleet counts — and is excluded from the Automation Score, which uses only measured robot density and live signal activity.
Automation, robotics and AI developments detected in China by our Signal Engine, which scans industry press and news feeds hourly. Showing the 8 most recent of 649 tracked for China.
China ranks #15 of 53 countries on the Roboradar24 Automation Score, which anchors to measured IFR robot density and adjusts it by recent automation-signal activity.
China has 166 industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing employees (2024 data), up from 142 in 2023. Source: IFR World Robotics via Our World in Data.
The automation signals below are scraped hourly and are genuinely live. Robot density comes from the IFR World Robotics dataset, which is published annually — we re-fetch it automatically so the figure updates as soon as IFR releases new data.
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