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        "Installations are a flow during the year; operating stock is a stock at year end. Do not add them.",
        "Industrial equipment is distinct from professional service categories and humanoid tracker totals.",
        "No 2026 forecast is represented as an observed result.",
        "The executive summary’s release date is established by the accompanying IFR announcement."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Industrial and working robot records",
          "href": "/machines?kind=working"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ifr-industrial-stock-2025",
      "category": "machines",
      "subject": "Industrial robots operating",
      "metric": "Year-end operational stock",
      "value": 5079078,
      "displayValue": "5,079,078",
      "qualifier": "eq",
      "unit": "robots",
      "geography": "Worldwide",
      "period": {
        "label": "Year end 2025",
        "start": "2025-12-31",
        "end": "2025-12-31"
      },
      "evidenceType": "supplier-survey",
      "sourceIds": [
        "source-ifr-industrial-installations-2025",
        "source-ifr-industrial-release-2026"
      ],
      "asOf": "2026-10-11",
      "scope": "Worldwide industrial robots in IFR World Robotics 2026; annual installations and year-end operating stock are separate measures.",
      "limitations": [
        "Installations are a flow during the year; operating stock is a stock at year end. Do not add them.",
        "Industrial equipment is distinct from professional service categories and humanoid tracker totals.",
        "No 2026 forecast is represented as an observed result.",
        "The executive summary’s release date is established by the accompanying IFR announcement."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Industrial and working robot records",
          "href": "/machines?kind=working"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "humanoid-shipments-2025",
      "category": "humanoids",
      "title": "How many humanoid robots were sold in 2025?",
      "takeaway": "The annual totals differ because each publisher counts a different population. Read the definition beside each figure.",
      "chart": "bars",
      "observationIds": [
        "ifr-humanoid-sales-2025",
        "omdia-humanoid-shipments-2025",
        "idc-humanoid-shipments-2025"
      ],
      "method": "Separate published estimates and supplier-survey observations for full year 2025; the bars share a zero baseline.",
      "limitations": [
        "Different tracker definitions are separate observations, not a confidence interval or a total to average.",
        "Sales, shipments, installations and factory production are different measures."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Explore humanoids",
          "href": "/humanoids"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "humanoid-shipments-h1-2026",
      "category": "humanoids",
      "title": "How big is the humanoid robot market?",
      "takeaway": "The latest verified industry shipment observations in this edition cover the first half of 2026, not the period through October.",
      "chart": "bars",
      "observationIds": [
        "sag-humanoid-shipments-h1-2026",
        "counterpoint-humanoid-shipments-h1-2026",
        "idc-humanoid-shipments-h1-2026"
      ],
      "method": "Compare the attributed H1 snapshots independently; approximate values and lower bounds are plotting anchors, not exact counts.",
      "limitations": [
        "Different tracker definitions are separate observations, not a confidence interval or a total to average.",
        "Sales, shipments, installations and factory production are different measures.",
        "No verified Q3 or October-year-to-date industry total was found in the reviewed research."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Explore humanoids",
          "href": "/humanoids"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "humanoid-revenue",
      "category": "humanoids",
      "title": "What revenue do humanoid market estimates cover?",
      "takeaway": "IDC reports revenue estimates for two different observation periods. They do not form a like-for-like annual trend.",
      "chart": "table",
      "observationIds": [
        "idc-humanoid-revenue-2025",
        "idc-humanoid-revenue-2026"
      ],
      "method": "Retain the original current-period tracker estimates separately from long-term forecasts.",
      "limitations": [
        "Full-year and half-year measures must remain separate.",
        "No consensus revenue total is computed."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Explore humanoids",
          "href": "/humanoids"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "humanoid-prices",
      "category": "humanoids",
      "title": "How much does a humanoid robot cost?",
      "takeaway": "Published hardware offers depend on configuration. These selected Unitree offers are dated observations, not a market-wide price average.",
      "chart": "bars",
      "observationIds": [
        "unitree-r1-air-price",
        "unitree-g1-base-price",
        "unitree-h2-base-price"
      ],
      "method": "Compare the configurations named in each row; keep their dated maker source and exclusions with the value.",
      "limitations": [
        "R1 AIR is not standard R1; G1 base excludes secondary development and EDU is distinct; H2 base is separate from EDU/Plus.",
        "No matched-configuration price index or deployment-cost total is implied."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Unitree maker",
          "href": "/makers/unitree"
        },
        {
          "label": "Explore humanoids",
          "href": "/humanoids"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "humanoid-asp",
      "category": "humanoids",
      "title": "What does one maker’s price history show?",
      "takeaway": "Unitree’s realized average selling price fell as its product mix changed; the first year includes only five recognized sales.",
      "chart": "bars",
      "observationIds": [
        "unitree-asp-2023",
        "unitree-asp-2024",
        "unitree-asp-2025"
      ],
      "method": "One company filing, same annual revenue-recognized sales basis, in original currency. Source pages 145 and 206.",
      "limitations": [
        "The 2023 sample contains only five recognized sales.",
        "Do not infer a global transaction-price trend or the cost of a working deployment."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Unitree maker",
          "href": "/makers/unitree"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "humanoid-makers",
      "category": "humanoids",
      "title": "Who makes the most humanoid robots?",
      "takeaway": "AgiBot leads the selected maker estimates published by SAG for H1 2026. Other sources and accounting measures give different answers.",
      "chart": "bars",
      "observationIds": [
        "sag-agibot-shipments-h1-2026",
        "sag-unitree-shipments-h1-2026",
        "sag-galbot-shipments-h1-2026",
        "sag-ubtech-shipments-h1-2026",
        "sag-leju-shipments-h1-2026"
      ],
      "method": "One tracker and one period; do not insert a company filing into this tracker’s numerator or denominator.",
      "limitations": [
        "SAG includes full-size and smaller bipeds, wheeled and ultra-bionic humanoids; Leju covers Kuavo only, excluding Aelos and Roban.",
        "Selected disclosed estimates, not a universal vendor ranking."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Explore makers",
          "href": "/makers"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "service-robots",
      "category": "machines",
      "title": "How many service robots were sold in 2025?",
      "takeaway": "Transport and logistics leads these professional service categories in IFR’s supplier survey.",
      "chart": "bars",
      "observationIds": [
        "ifr-transport-sales-2025",
        "ifr-hospitality-sales-2025",
        "ifr-cleaning-sales-2025",
        "ifr-agriculture-sales-2025",
        "ifr-inspection-sales-2025"
      ],
      "method": "Categories from one World Robotics 2026 edition. Exact chart values are retained; changing supplier panels prevent a like-for-like line across editions.",
      "limitations": [
        "Supplier survey, not installed fleets, atlas models or a whole-market estimate.",
        "Consumer and medical categories are separate. Category boundaries can overlap other market series."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Explore machines",
          "href": "/machines"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "consumer-vacuums",
      "category": "machines",
      "title": "How many robot vacuums shipped in 2025?",
      "takeaway": "IDC reports 24.12 million worldwide smart-vacuum shipments in 2025. Earlier published observations provide context without filling missing years.",
      "chart": "bars",
      "observationIds": [
        "idc-vacuum-shipments-2023",
        "idc-vacuum-shipments-2025"
      ],
      "method": "Selected observed years from IDC public releases; retain each publication date and the worldwide smart-vacuum scope.",
      "limitations": [
        "No households, active fleet, market-wide cleaning-robot total or retail transactions are inferred.",
        "The home-robot atlas includes products outside IDC’s vacuum definition."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Home robot records",
          "href": "/machines?kind=home"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "consumer-mowers",
      "category": "machines",
      "title": "How many robotic lawn mowers shipped in 2025?",
      "takeaway": "IDC reports 1.99 million mower shipments, including a 1.32 million wire-free subset.",
      "chart": "bars",
      "observationIds": [
        "idc-mower-shipments-2025",
        "idc-wirefree-mower-shipments-2025"
      ],
      "method": "Same publisher, period and worldwide product scope; the subset is explicitly contained in the total.",
      "limitations": [
        "These rows overlap. They must not be summed."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Mower records",
          "href": "/machines?kind=lawn"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "warehouse-shipments",
      "category": "machines",
      "title": "How big is the warehouse robot market?",
      "takeaway": "Interact Analysis reports more than 200,000 material-handling AMR and AGV shipments in 2025; this is narrower than all warehouse automation.",
      "chart": "bars",
      "observationIds": [
        "warehouse-shipments-2018",
        "warehouse-shipments-2025"
      ],
      "method": "Use the selected historical observations from one publication vintage; omit its future forecast from observed shipments.",
      "limitations": [
        "No numerical AMR/AGV split is established here.",
        "Fixed picking arms, AS/RS equipment and robotaxi fleets are not included in this shipment measure."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Warehouse robot records",
          "href": "/machines?kind=warehouse"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "robotaxi-fleets",
      "category": "vehicles",
      "title": "Which robotaxi operator has the largest fleet?",
      "takeaway": "These dated fleet disclosures do not establish a comparable worldwide leader. Their definitions, operating status and observation dates differ.",
      "chart": "table",
      "observationIds": [
        "pony-ai-fleet-2026",
        "waymo-fleet-2026",
        "weride-fleet-2026"
      ],
      "method": "Alphabetical operator disclosure table. Stock at a date is separate from weekly rides, registrations and announced capacity.",
      "limitations": [
        "Do not rank unsynchronized fleet observations or assume every vehicle has the same driverless-service status.",
        "Company totals cover multiple models and must be counted once."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Waymo maker",
          "href": "/makers/waymo"
        },
        {
          "label": "Robotaxi records",
          "href": "/vehicles?kind=robotaxi"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "waymo-rides",
      "category": "vehicles",
      "title": "How many rides does Waymo provide each week?",
      "takeaway": "Waymo’s primary announcement reports trips; the later TechCrunch account says paid rides. Keep each wording, date and source with its observation.",
      "chart": "table",
      "observationIds": [
        "waymo-weekly-trips-2026-09",
        "waymo-paid-rides-2026-09"
      ],
      "method": "Two separate disclosures of weekly activity, not a single comparable time series. The primary announcement does not identify a measurement week or establish paid-only trips.",
      "limitations": [
        "A weekly run rate must not be turned into an annual total.",
        "This is a company report, not an independently audited trip ledger."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Waymo maker",
          "href": "/makers/waymo"
        },
        {
          "label": "Robotaxi records",
          "href": "/vehicles?kind=robotaxi"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "apollo-rides",
      "category": "vehicles",
      "title": "What do quarterly robotaxi rides measure?",
      "takeaway": "Apollo Go’s quarterly reports measure operating activity. They do not establish paid trips, fleet size or market share.",
      "chart": "bars",
      "observationIds": [
        "apollo-go-rides-2026-q1",
        "apollo-go-rides-2026-q2"
      ],
      "method": "Two dated company disclosures of fully driverless operational rides; preserve the rounded Q2 qualifier.",
      "limitations": [
        "Management described temporary operational adjustments in some domestic cities.",
        "Do not infer vehicles, annual trips or the direction of the whole market from these two observations."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Baidu Apollo maker",
          "href": "/makers/baidu-apollo"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "atlas-availability",
      "category": "overview",
      "title": "Can you get a humanoid robot today?",
      "takeaway": "The atlas distinguishes commercial and pilot classifications. Neither label alone establishes current delivery availability or a paid deployment.",
      "chart": "status",
      "observationIds": [
        "atlas-humanoids-commercial",
        "atlas-humanoids-pilot",
        "atlas-machines-commercial",
        "atlas-machines-pilot",
        "atlas-vehicles-commercial",
        "atlas-vehicles-pilot"
      ],
      "method": "Exact stored status counts within each frozen category; every row retains its full-catalogue denominator.",
      "limitations": [
        "These are model records, not operating units or market share.",
        "Commercial and pilot are shown separately, with historical entries retained."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Explore humanoids",
          "href": "/humanoids"
        },
        {
          "label": "Explore machines",
          "href": "/machines"
        },
        {
          "label": "Explore vehicles",
          "href": "/vehicles"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "atlas-price-coverage",
      "category": "humanoids",
      "title": "How much of the atlas has a usable price?",
      "takeaway": "Only a small part of each catalogue has a numeric price, and fewer remain after note-based screening.",
      "chart": "status",
      "observationIds": [
        "atlas-humanoids-price-numeric",
        "atlas-humanoids-price-screened",
        "atlas-machines-price-numeric",
        "atlas-machines-price-screened",
        "atlas-vehicles-price-numeric",
        "atlas-vehicles-price-screened"
      ],
      "method": "Count positive finite USD figures and apply the reviewed exclusion rules. Show the entire category denominator; missing documentation is not zero cost.",
      "limitations": [
        "Screened does not mean verified current sale price.",
        "The two rows per category overlap; their values must not be added."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Explore humanoids",
          "href": "/humanoids"
        },
        {
          "label": "Explore machines",
          "href": "/machines"
        },
        {
          "label": "Explore vehicles",
          "href": "/vehicles"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "vehicle-autonomy",
      "category": "vehicles",
      "title": "How autonomous are the listed vehicles?",
      "takeaway": "The atlas’s autonomy labels describe model records. They are not a current no-safety-driver fleet share.",
      "chart": "status",
      "observationIds": [
        "atlas-vehicles-autonomous",
        "atlas-vehicles-supervised",
        "atlas-vehicles-assisted"
      ],
      "method": "Count the stored autonomy field across the full frozen vehicle catalogue.",
      "limitations": [
        "The separate driverless-service field is a different classification and must not be substituted.",
        "Current service state needs a dated operating area and supervision evidence."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Explore vehicles",
          "href": "/vehicles"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "humanoids-availability",
      "category": "humanoids",
      "title": "What do humanoid availability labels mean?",
      "takeaway": "Commercial and pilot labels describe catalogue classifications, not verified delivery availability or physical units operating.",
      "chart": "status",
      "observationIds": [
        "atlas-humanoids-commercial",
        "atlas-humanoids-pilot"
      ],
      "method": "Count the frozen catalogue’s stored status fields; each row uses the full category denominator.",
      "limitations": [
        "Commercial can include internal use, services and preorders.",
        "Pilot does not establish a paid deployment; historical records remain in the denominator."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Explore humanoids",
          "href": "/humanoids"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "machines-availability",
      "category": "machines",
      "title": "What do machine availability labels mean?",
      "takeaway": "Commercial and pilot labels describe catalogue classifications, not verified delivery availability or physical units operating.",
      "chart": "status",
      "observationIds": [
        "atlas-machines-commercial",
        "atlas-machines-pilot"
      ],
      "method": "Count the frozen catalogue’s stored status fields; each row uses the full category denominator.",
      "limitations": [
        "Commercial can include internal use, services and preorders.",
        "Pilot does not establish a paid deployment; historical records remain in the denominator."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Explore machines",
          "href": "/machines"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "vehicles-availability",
      "category": "vehicles",
      "title": "What do vehicle availability labels mean?",
      "takeaway": "Commercial and pilot labels describe catalogue classifications, not verified delivery availability or physical units operating.",
      "chart": "status",
      "observationIds": [
        "atlas-vehicles-commercial",
        "atlas-vehicles-pilot"
      ],
      "method": "Count the frozen catalogue’s stored status fields; each row uses the full category denominator.",
      "limitations": [
        "Commercial can include internal use, services and preorders.",
        "Pilot does not establish a paid deployment; historical records remain in the denominator."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Explore vehicles",
          "href": "/vehicles"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "industrial-robots",
      "category": "machines",
      "title": "How many industrial robots were installed in 2025?",
      "takeaway": "IFR records 603,307 new industrial-robot installations in 2025. Its separate operating-stock figure counts robots still in use at year end.",
      "chart": "table",
      "observationIds": [
        "ifr-industrial-installations-2025",
        "ifr-industrial-stock-2025"
      ],
      "method": "IFR World Robotics 2026 executive summary, printed page 15. The edition was released on 24 September 2026.",
      "limitations": [
        "Annual installations and year-end stock answer different questions; this table does not add or share a bar scale between them.",
        "The atlas machine list is navigation context, not the same measured population as IFR’s industrial statistics."
      ],
      "atlasLinks": [
        {
          "label": "Explore machines",
          "href": "/machines"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "sag-humanoid-shipments-h1-2026",
    "idc-humanoid-revenue-2026",
    "idc-vacuum-shipments-2025",
    "idc-mower-shipments-2025",
    "waymo-fleet-2026",
    "waymo-weekly-trips-2026-09"
  ],
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    "atlas-humanoids-records",
    "atlas-machines-records",
    "atlas-vehicles-records"
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    "robotaxi-fleets",
    "waymo-rides",
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    "service-robots",
    "consumer-vacuums",
    "consumer-mowers",
    "humanoid-prices",
    "atlas-availability"
  ]
}
