BEIJING — China's industrial robot production surged 38.5 percent year-on-year in October to 21,467 units, official data showed.

In the first 10 months of the year, the country produced a total of 183,447 industrial robots, up 21 percent from the same period last year, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed.

During the January-October period, China's major industrial robot makers with an annual business income of at least 20 million yuan (about $3.05 million) raked in 39.62 billion yuan in combined revenue, up 2.3 percent from a year earlier, the data showed.