China Robot Rental Market Forecast to Grow Over 900% by 2026

The striking figure is not the rental growth itself but the concentration: nearly all global humanoid shipments landing in one market suggests deployment is being driven by domestic commercial use cases, holiday rentals among them, rather than broad international adoption. That makes China the de facto testing ground for whether rental economics work at scale. The open question is whether this demand holds after the holiday peak, since rental-led uptake can flatter shipment numbers without proving durable end-user demand.