Emerging trend of digitization across multiple sectors is pushing humanoid robot market growth, followed by the growing adoption to reduce costs associated with various business operations. The shipments are forecast to grow at over 40% CAGR from 2017 to 2024.

Global humanoid robot market is set to exceed USD 5 billion by 2024, according to this new research report. Increasing deployment of robots enabled with advanced features across retail and hospitality applications to enhance the customer experience is projected to augment demand. Deployment in the hospitality industry to augment the operational efficiency, perform multiple tasks and boosting the overall productivity is expected to fuel the humanoid robot market growth.

Growing demand from the education and research sector is anticipated to surge the adoption of humanoid robots over the future. The popularity of such robots providing humanly interaction is on the rise among students of various age-groups further contributing to the market growth. However, concerns such as high prices might limit the humanoid robot market growth. In addition, the reluctance of consumers to adopt such robots pose a major challenge to the industry demand.

Wheel drive robots are expected to witness significant growth over the forecast timeline. This growth can be accredited to the growing demand of such robots for enhancing customer engagement across various industrial sectors. The incorporation of robots with advanced technology such as AI is an emerging trend in serving experiences as part of the product offerings. Humanoid robots enable retailers to upgrade the ability to provide experiences to their customers in terms of personalized recommendations. In addition, they utilize emotion recognition technology to enhance the customer interaction.

Surging adoption across applications such as security, education and healthcare is anticipated to fuel the humanoid robot market growth. These machines use interactive demonstrations and animations to entertain the customers, guide them through the service & product offerings in a business establishment. It helps in reducing efforts resulting in optimizing the performance of the sales force. Healthcare sector provides lucrative growth opportunities to the market. It can be credited to the rising adoption of such robots for providing care to elderly persons reducing the burden of nursing care.

Asia Pacific humanoid robot market will witness high growth over the forecast timeline. The growth can be attributed to growing demand of these robots in emerging economies such as China and Japan. Moreover, the increasing number of players entering the industry with advanced technologies further contributes to the regional growth. The growing adoption for security and surveillance applications across security check points is expected to fuel the MEA market growth.

Companies in the humanoid robot market comprise Softbank Robotics, Ubtech Robotics, Qihan Technology, DST Robot, Robotis, Engineered Arts, Bluefrog Robotics, Kawada Robotics, Honda, Hanson Robotics, Toshiba, Hajime Research Institute and Trossen Robotics. The industry is characterized by increasing competition followed by the rising number of new entrants. The industry players are heavily investing on R&D and focusing on incorporating advanced technologies and next generation robotics.

Humanoid Robot market research report includes in-depth coverage of the industry with estimates & forecast in terms of revenue in USD and volume in unit shipments from 2015 to 2024, for the following segments:

By Product
Wheel drive
Biped

By Application
Retail
Hospitality
Education & Scientific Research
Healthcare
Residential
Military & Defense
Construction
Underwater systems
Others

The above information has been provided for the following regions and countries:

North America
U.S.
Canada

Europe
UK
Germany
France
Italy
Russia

Asia Pacific
China
India
Japan
South Korea

Latin America
Brazil
Mexico

Middle East & Africa (MEA)
South Africa
Saudi Arabia
UAE