Robots & Self-Driving Cars: chart data from AI Adoption (https://aiadoption.org/robotics-statistics/)

Data from the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI) and the partners named below. Licence: CC BY-ND 4.0, as for the AI Index.
Each CSV is the data behind one chart. Cite the chart page and its original source.

waymo-robotaxi-trips-california.csv  Waymo's paid robotaxi trips in California reached about 283,900 a week in December 2025
    Source: California Public Utilities Commission, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/waymo-robotaxi-trips-california/
apollo-go-robotaxi-rides.csv  Baidu's Apollo Go gave an estimated 11 million driverless rides in 2025, up from 4 million in 2024
    Source: Baidu, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/apollo-go-robotaxi-rides/
waymo-injury-crashes-vs-human-drivers.csv  Waymo had 8 injury crashes at intersections through September 2025; human drivers would have had 198
    Source: Waymo, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/waymo-injury-crashes-vs-human-drivers/
waymo-airbag-crashes-vs-human-drivers.csv  Waymo had 39 crashes with airbag deployment through September 2025, against about 182 for human drivers
    Source: Waymo, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/waymo-airbag-crashes-vs-human-drivers/
rlbench-robot-manipulation.csv  The best RLBench robot-manipulation method reached 89.4% success in 2025, up from 49.4% in 2022
    Source: AI Index, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/rlbench-robot-manipulation/
behavior-1k-household-robots.csv  The best team fully completed 12.4% of BEHAVIOR-1K household robot tasks in the 2025 challenge
    Source: BEHAVIOR Challenge Leaderboard, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/behavior-1k-household-robots/
responsiblerobotbench-robot-safety.csv  GPT-4o scored 0.64 on ResponsibleRobotBench's safe success rate in 2025, the best of five models tested
    Source: Zhang et al., 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/responsiblerobotbench-robot-safety/
self-driving-datasets-hours.csv  Nvidia's 2025 PhysicalAI-AV dataset holds 1,727 hours of driving, the most of 13 benchmarks tracked
    Source: AI Index, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/self-driving-datasets-hours/
industrial-robot-installations.csv  542,000 industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2024, level with 2023 and below the 2022 peak
    Source: International Federation of Robotics (IFR), 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/industrial-robot-installations/
industrial-robot-operational-stock.csv  The world's operational stock of industrial robots rose 8.9% to 4.66 million in 2024
    Source: International Federation of Robotics (IFR), 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/industrial-robot-operational-stock/
collaborative-robot-installations.csv  Collaborative robots made up 12.0% of industrial robot installations in 2024, up from 2.8% in 2017
    Source: International Federation of Robotics (IFR), 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/collaborative-robot-installations/
industrial-robot-installations-by-country.csv  China installed 295,000 industrial robots in 2024, 54.4% of the world total and 6.6 times Japan
    Source: International Federation of Robotics (IFR), 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/industrial-robot-installations-by-country/
industrial-robot-installations-top-5-countries.csv  China installed about 13 times as many industrial robots in 2024 as in 2011; Japan 1.6 times
    Source: International Federation of Robotics (IFR), 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/industrial-robot-installations-top-5-countries/
industrial-robot-installation-growth-by-country.csv  Industrial robot installations fell in 2024 in five of the 10 largest markets, including the US (−9%)
    Source: International Federation of Robotics (IFR), 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/industrial-robot-installation-growth-by-country/
service-robot-installations-by-application.csv  207,000 service robots were installed in 2024, about half of them for transport and logistics
    Source: International Federation of Robotics (IFR), 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/service-robot-installations-by-application/
