International Data Corporation (IDC) today released its first research report, China Exoskeleton Robot Market Shares, 2025. In 2025, China's exoskeleton robot market exceeded RMB 1.6 billion, with shipments of approximately 26,000 units.
The medical rehabilitation market still accounts for the majority of market value, while the consumer assistance market contributed more than 70% of shipments. Industry applications continue to expand into new growth areas. The three major segments are jointly driving China's exoskeleton robot industry to rapidly evolve from single-scenario medical applications toward human capability-enhancement equipment for multiple scenarios.
The report states that in 2025, China's exoskeleton robot market had formed a pattern of coordinated development across three major markets—medical rehabilitation, consumer assistance, and industry applications—and entered a phase of accelerated commercial growth.
Medical rehabilitation exoskeletons remain the largest market segment at present, with a relatively mature business model.
Benefiting from population aging, the silver economy, and declining product costs, consumer assistance exoskeletons have become the fastest-growing market segment.
Exoskeletons for industry applications—which cover scenarios in logistics and warehousing, automobile manufacturing, electric power and energy, construction, emergency rescue, and other industries—are gradually entering the stage of exploring large-scale deployment amid rising demand for production safety and the intelligent transformation of manufacturing.
In 2025, China's medical rehabilitation exoskeleton robot market was worth approximately RMB 1.42 billion, with approximately 3,200 units shipped. Hospitals' rehabilitation departments, specialized rehabilitation hospitals, and rehabilitation centers remain the main application scenarios. Driven by population aging, growing demand for rehabilitation medicine, the development of primary-level rehabilitation systems, and domestic substitution, medical rehabilitation exoskeletons have become the most commercially mature market segment. Fourier Intelligence, Cheng Tian Technology, Maibu Robotics, and other vendors hold leading shares of China's medical rehabilitation exoskeleton market.
In 2025, China's consumer assistance exoskeleton robot market was worth nearly RMB 110 million, with approximately 19,000 units shipped. With population aging, the development of the silver economy, and declining product costs, these products are rapidly expanding into scenarios such as daily walking assistance, outdoor sports, and cultural tourism experiences, becoming an important driver of market growth. Cheng Tian Technology, Kenqing Technology (note: Kenqing is pronounced kěn qìng and refers to the place where muscles and bones connect), Jike, and other vendors hold leading shares of China's consumer assistance exoskeleton market.
In 2025, China's industry application exoskeleton robot market was worth nearly RMB 80 million, with approximately 3,800 units shipped. Industry application exoskeletons are currently used mainly in logistics and warehousing, automobile manufacturing, electric power and energy, and emergency firefighting, improving work efficiency by reducing labor loads and occupational injuries. Aoshar Intelligent, Cheng Tian Technology, Maibao Intelligent, and other vendors hold leading shares of China's industry application exoskeleton market.