{"city":"Winterthur","name":"Kistler","slug":"kistler","facts":[{"date":"2026-06-01","type":"partnership","value":"Technological cooperation with TEST-FUCHS to develop aerospace measurement systems, with Kistler contributing piezoelectric and piezoresistive sensor expertise","source":"test-fuchs.com"},{"date":"2026-03-01","type":"setback","value":"Decline in 2025 group sales in Swiss francs","source":"kistler.com"},{"date":"2026-03-01","type":"revenue","value":"2025 group sales","source":"kistler.com"},{"date":"2025-11-01","type":"revenue","value":"Robotics-specific revenue not disclosed","source":"kistler.com"},{"date":null,"type":"revenue_band","value":"CHF 100-500m group revenue; robotics-specific revenue not di","source":""}],"peers":[],"stage":null,"state":"Zurich","aliases":[],"country":"Switzerland","domains":[{"why":"Kistler develops and supplies piezoelectric and piezoresistive sensors and measurement systems, including force and torque measurement for robotics.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"member","layer":null,"total":63,"domain":"Robotics","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":4,"position":6,"progress":8,"firepower":6,"commercial":8,"deployment":6,"production":8,"technology":6},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[],"website":"kistler.com","category":"Robotics · Sensing","categories":[{"name":"Force & torque","domain":"Robotics","parent":"Robotics · Sensing"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-25T23:17:49.578217+00:00","facts_total":8,"positioning":"Kistler is a Swiss, family-owned measurement-technology company supplying piezoelectric and piezoresistive force, torque, pressure, and acceleration sensors, including force/torque products applicable to robotic assembly and automation. The Kistler Group reported CHF 424 million in 2025 sales and announced preparations in 2026 for a highly automated sensor factory in Winterthur, but robotics-specific deployments, revenue, and customer concentration were not publicly verified. Its differentiator is deep sensor and calibration capability; the open question is whether robotics represents a material growth business rather than an application niche within a broader industrial measurement portfolio.","sub_category":"Force & torque","signals_total":0,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/kistler","title":"Kistler · robotics, Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Kistler develops and supplies piezoelectric and piezoresistive sensors and measurement systems, including force and torque measurement for robotics. Robotics member (score 63)","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}