FANUC ranks 6 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 94; ABB Robotics ranks 18 with 88. FANUC is ahead on positioning and firepower. Level on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology and leverage. ABB Robotics is based in Switzerland, FANUC in Oshino, Japan. ABB Robotics: Established. FANUC: Public, founded 1972. ABB Robotics is named in 85 signals and FANUC in 111.
ABB Robotics develops and sells industrial robotic arms and collaborative robots, including the GoFa and PoWa cobot families, for industrial automation tasks.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
ABB Robotics is a Swiss industrial-robot maker ($2.3B division, #2 globally, with hubs in Sweden, the US, and China) being divested to SoftBank for $5.375B (agreed October 2025, closing mid-to-late 2026). It announced a $120M US expansion (March 2026), embedded NVIDIA Omniverse in RobotStudio, and partnered with Jacobi (April 2026). The SoftBank divestment is the defining change.
85 signals name ABB Robotics.
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FANUC builds and supplies industrial robot arms, collaborative robots, welding and painting robots, and integrated robotic automation systems for manufacturing, machining, assembly and material handling.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
FANUC is a Japanese industrial-automation leader ($7.2B group in robotics and CNC) with robot capacity of 11,000/month (actual ~8,000/month) and 750,000 cumulative robots (as of 2021). It is a structurally dominant arm and CNC maker. Current unit output and recent dated events were not captured this pass beyond the IFR capacity data.
111 signals name FANUC.
136 facts on file.
FANUC ranks 6 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 94; ABB Robotics ranks 18 with 88. FANUC is ahead on positioning and firepower. Level on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology and leverage. ABB Robotics is based in Switzerland, FANUC in Oshino, Japan. ABB Robotics: Established. FANUC: Public, founded 1972. ABB Robotics is named in 85 signals and FANUC in 111.
FANUC ranks 6 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 94; ABB Robotics ranks 18 with 88. FANUC is ahead on positioning and firepower. Level on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology and leverage. ABB Robotics is based in Switzerland, FANUC in Oshino, Japan. ABB Robotics: Established. FANUC: Public, founded 1972. ABB Robotics is named in 85 signals and FANUC in 111. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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