Where robots come from and where you can buy them in Poland: origin and availability data

What the catalogue says about where robots come from

Robolupa currently describes 303 robot models from 161 manufacturers (as of 2 October 2026; left out are 11 models without a page of their own yet and 10 repeat entries of the same robots). China contributes the most, with 100 models from 44 manufacturers, or 33.0% of the catalogue. Europe excluding Poland adds 75 models (24.8%), the remaining countries 72 — among them Japan (26), South Korea (21) and Taiwan (8) — and the USA 52 (17.2%). Three Polish manufacturers have a model in the catalogue, 4 models in total. A sample that small supports no conclusion about a Polish share; our manufacturer table lists 39 Polish entities, but most of them have no robot in the catalogue (see “Polish Robotics Companies”).

One caveat on counting: a "model" is sometimes a variant. Unitree lists the R1 separately as base, Air and EDU, so makers with a wide range of versions gain entries. China averages 2.3 models per manufacturer, the USA 1.3. The number of manufacturers is therefore a fairer measure of breadth: China 27.3% of manufacturers, the USA 24.8%, Europe excluding Poland 21.1%, the other countries 24.8%.

Who has a Polish seller

81 of 303 models (26.7%) have a Polish retailer, distributor or branch office, and only 17 of 161 manufacturers stand behind them. We checked availability for 215 models, and among those the share is 37.7%. The other 88 models have not been examined yet, so the true share lies between 26.7% and 56.4%.

Split by manufacturer country, the three large groups are strikingly close:

• China: 29 of 100 models (29.0%),
• Europe excluding Poland: 25 of 75 (33.3%),
• other countries: 26 of 72 (36.1%).

The gaps sit within the uncertainty created by unexamined models (in Europe 26 of 75). The USA is the exception. None of the 52 American models has a Polish seller in our data. Availability was checked for 36 of them, while 16 were not examined; none is recorded as available without a seller named. Even if every unexamined model turned out to be available, the upper bound would be 30.8%. The American models on sale (30) include Spot Boston Dynamics Spot and Digit Agility Digit. The data do not say why a seller is missing. We cover Spot separately, since we found no standing sales channel in Poland “Boston Dynamics Spot: Price, Uses and Availability in Poland”.

Category matters more than country

If country explains so little, what does explain availability? Category does best, followed by the individual manufacturer. Cobots have a Polish seller in 43 of 72 cases (59.7%), humanoid robots in 7 of 101 (6.9%). Quadrupeds rank high: 9 of 13 (69.2%).

Within a category, though, country can be decisive. Chinese cobots have a seller in 1 of 12 cases, against 42 of 60 (70.0%) for cobots from the rest of the world. Behind that stands a network of local branches, distributors and integrators held by KUKA KUKA, Universal Robots Universal Robots, Doosan Doosan Robotics, Fanuc FANUC and Yaskawa Yaskawa Electric. Service robots show the reverse. The Chinese ones have a seller in 9 of 12 cases, mostly thanks to Pudu Pudu Robotics, while none of the 26 service models from other countries has one (14 of them were checked). Humanoids are narrower still: of 53 Chinese models, 7 have a Polish seller, and every one is a Unitree Unitree Robotics model, one of 29 Chinese humanoid makers; compare “Chinese Humanoid Robots”.

That shows how concentrated availability is. Four brands (Unitree, KUKA, Doosan, Universal Robots) account for 41 of the 81 models with a Polish seller (50.6%), seven for 59 (72.8%).

Status: buy, order or wait

Origin also shows in model status. 86.0% of Chinese models are on sale (86 of 100), 77.3% of European ones, 72.2% of those from the other countries and 57.7% of American ones (30 of 52). The American range contains 16 prototypes, pilots and concepts (30.8%) and 5 discontinued models; the Chinese range has 10 of the former (10.0%).

Humanoids show it most sharply. Of 53 Chinese humanoid robots, 40 are on sale. Of 18 American ones, only 2, and 13 are prototypes, pilots or concepts. In Europe 4 of 14 humanoids are on sale, with 3 more open for pre-order; in the other countries 2 of 14. Prices and availability for the whole category are covered in “How Much Does a Humanoid Robot Cost in 2026”, and the catalogue split is in humanoid robots.

What this means for buyers in Poland

Manufacturer country is a weak filter. Instead of asking whether a robot is European, check whether the specific model has a named partner in Poland. In our data it looks different depending on product type. Consumer and educational robots are bought from online shops (the data include x-kom, Botland, Delta Robots and Komputronik), while industrial cobots go through distributors and integrators such as Elmark, Zapamet or TFM Robotics; a practical walkthrough is in “How to Buy a Cobot Step by Step”.

Where no Polish seller exists, budget for import, customs duty, VAT and arranging service yourself, and usually a longer quotation process. None of that is in the list price; the calculation is in “Humanoid Robot TCO: How to Calculate Total Cost”. For humanoids other than Unitree, our data show no Polish seller at all.

A caution on prices: the price-radar snapshot of 28 September 2026 covers only 16 models, 15 of them Chinese, so it cannot be used to compare countries. Of the Chinese ones, 11 of 15 had at least one offer marked as available that day.

What these data do not tell you

They say nothing about sales volume: we count models, not units. They do not cover the whole market, because the catalogue is an editorial selection. And they do not settle whether a missing Polish seller means a robot is unobtainable, since some manufacturers sell directly. The limitations are spelled out in the methodology section.