Yumi Finance

There are now more than 5 million industrial robots operating in factories worldwide. That is up 9% in a year, and factories installed more than 600,000 new robots in 2025, the first time annual installations crossed that mark. IFR International Federation of Robotics At this point, robotics is no longer a niche equipment category. A fleet of 5 million machines eventually creates demand for everything around the asset itself: financing, insurance, maintenance, fleet management and secondary markets. The interesting question is no longer whether factories will use robots. It is what financial infrastructure gets built around millions of increasingly expensive machines.