ABB Robotics ranks 18 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 88; Teradyne ranks 94 with 78. ABB Robotics is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology and leverage. Teradyne is ahead on firepower. Level on positioning. ABB Robotics is based in Switzerland, Teradyne in North Reading, United States. ABB Robotics: Established. Teradyne: Public, founded 1960. ABB Robotics is named in 85 signals and Teradyne in 55.
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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Teradyne sells Universal Robots collaborative robot arms and MiR autonomous mobile robots for production environments.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Teradyne is a US maker of automated test equipment (Nasdaq:TER) and the parent of Universal Robots and MiR, which unveiled production-ready physical-AI applications at Automate 2026. Its robotics exposure runs through those subsidiaries (tracked as their own records).
55 signals name Teradyne.
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ABB Robotics ranks 18 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 88; Teradyne ranks 94 with 78. ABB Robotics is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology and leverage. Teradyne is ahead on firepower. Level on positioning. ABB Robotics is based in Switzerland, Teradyne in North Reading, United States. ABB Robotics: Established. Teradyne: Public, founded 1960. ABB Robotics is named in 85 signals and Teradyne in 55.
ABB Robotics ranks 18 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 88; Teradyne ranks 94 with 78. ABB Robotics is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology and leverage. Teradyne is ahead on firepower. Level on positioning. ABB Robotics is based in Switzerland, Teradyne in North Reading, United States. ABB Robotics: Established. Teradyne: Public, founded 1960. ABB Robotics is named in 85 signals and Teradyne in 55. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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