{"id": 1227960, "name": "Number of professional robots installed", "unit": "robots", "createdAt": "2026-04-24T10:39:37.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-04-24T10:39:37.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2021-2024", "datasetId": 7803, "shortUnit": "", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "number_of_professional_robots_installed", "catalogPath": "grapher/artificial_intelligence/2026-04-20/ai_index/professional_robots#number_of_professional_robots_installed", "descriptionShort": "Professional service robots perform useful tasks outside of industrial manufacturing, such as surgery, logistics, or agriculture. Consumer service robots, such as robotic vacuum cleaners, are not included.", "type": "int", "grapherConfigIdETL": "019dbf12-db48-73bd-bb4b-9f898ba04247", "datasetName": "AI Index Report", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-04-20", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "robots", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "minor", "presentation": {"attribution": "International Federation of Robotics via AI Index Report (2026)", "topicTagsLinks": ["Artificial Intelligence"]}, "descriptionKey": ["Agriculture category includes robots used for tasks such as plowing, seeding, harvesting, weeding, fertilizing, and pesticide spraying\u2014both indoors (e.g. greenhouses) and outdoors (e.g. fields and vineyards). It also covers robots for milking, as well as those used in other livestock activities like feeding and barn cleaning.", "Professional cleaning category includes robots designed to clean floors, windows, walls, tanks, pipes, and vehicle hulls in professional environments. This category also includes disinfection robots and others used for specialized or large-scale cleaning tasks.", "Transportation and logistics category includes robots that transport goods and manage inventory in both indoor and outdoor environments. These robots are used in places such as warehouses, hospitals, hotels, and public streets, and they support activities like deliveries, stock counting, and restocking.", "Medical and healthcare category includes robots used in clinical and care settings for diagnostics, surgery, rehabilitation, and non-invasive therapy. It also includes hospital support robots, wearable exoskeletons, and telepresence robots used specifically in healthcare.", "Hospitality category includes robots that prepare and serve food or drinks, as well as those that provide information, guidance, or remote presence in customer-facing environments like hotels, restaurants, and museums."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2024}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 36536, "name": "Agriculture", "code": null}, {"id": 371489, "name": "Hospitality", "code": null}, {"id": 352333, "name": "Medical and healthcare", "code": null}, {"id": 371492, "name": "Professional cleaning", "code": null}, {"id": 371491, "name": "Transportation and logistics", "code": null}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 14378, "title": "AI Index Report", "description": "The AI Index Report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data related to artificial intelligence (AI). The mission is to provide unbiased, rigorously vetted, broadly sourced data to enable policymakers, researchers, executives, journalists, and the general public to develop a more thorough and nuanced understanding of the complex field of AI.", "producer": "AI Index Report", "citationFull": "Sha Sajadieh, Loredana Fattorini, Raymond Perrault, Yolanda Gil, Vanessa Parli, Lapo Santarlasci, Juan Pava, Nestor Maslej, Russ Altman, Erik Brynjolfsson, Carla Brodley, Jack Clark, Virginia Dignum, Vipin Kumar, James Landay, Terah Lyons, James Manyika, Juan Carlos Niebles, Yoav Shoham, Elham Tabassi, Russell Wald, Toby Walsh, Dan Weld. \u201cThe AI Index 2026 Annual Report,\u201d AI Index Steering Committee, Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, April 2026.", "attributionShort": "AI Index Report", "urlMain": "https://hai.stanford.edu/assets/files/ai_index_report_2026.pdf", "dateAccessed": "2026-04-20", "datePublished": "2026-04-13", "license": {"url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/assets/files/ai_index_report_2026.pdf", "name": "CC BY-ND 4.0"}}]}