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IDC: Global quadruped robot market exceeds $400 million in first half of the year

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IDC's "Global Quadruped Robot Market Share, 1H26" report shows that in the first half of 2026, the global quadruped robot market exceeded $400 million, up 95.4% year over year, with shipments exceeding 49,000 units, up 92.5% year over year. Among this, the industry-level application market exceeded $270 million, up 125.1% year over year, and deployments increased 260.5% year over year; IDC said that Deep Robotics, leveraging deployments in scenarios such as power inspection, industrial inspection, and emergency firefighting, ranked first in the industry-level application market. In terms of overall revenue share, Unitree Robotics ranked first with 13.8%, and Deep Robotics ranked second with 9.2%. The market shows a divergence between volume and price: education and research and home consumer use contributed about 60% of shipments, while accounting for less than one-third of revenue. In the industrial manufacturing segment, Juwei Technology ranked first with a 26.1% revenue share, Zhiyuan Robotics had 18.5%, Boston Dynamics 9.9%, and Unitree Robotics 7.1%.