Yaskawa ranks 11 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; ABB Robotics ranks 18 with 88. Yaskawa is ahead on firepower. Level on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning and leverage. ABB Robotics is based in Switzerland, Yaskawa in Kitakyushu, Japan. ABB Robotics: Established. Yaskawa: Established. ABB Robotics is named in 85 signals and Yaskawa in 57.
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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Yaskawa develops and sells MOTOMAN industrial robots, collaborative robots, heavy-object transport robots, and autonomous robot systems for manufacturing and other industrial markets.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Yaskawa is a Japanese industrial-robot maker (Motoman) with capacity up to 24,000 robots a year and group revenue of Y542.1bn in FY2025 (robotics segment +6.4% in H1). It acquired Tokyo Robotics for humanoid actuators, completed Robotics Factory No.5 in Kitakyushu, and signed an AI-robotics MoU with SoftBank. Standalone robotics-segment revenue and current unit output are not broken out.
57 signals name Yaskawa.
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Yaskawa ranks 11 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; ABB Robotics ranks 18 with 88. Yaskawa is ahead on firepower. Level on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning and leverage. ABB Robotics is based in Switzerland, Yaskawa in Kitakyushu, Japan. ABB Robotics: Established. Yaskawa: Established. ABB Robotics is named in 85 signals and Yaskawa in 57.
Yaskawa ranks 11 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; ABB Robotics ranks 18 with 88. Yaskawa is ahead on firepower. Level on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning and leverage. ABB Robotics is based in Switzerland, Yaskawa in Kitakyushu, Japan. ABB Robotics: Established. Yaskawa: Established. ABB Robotics is named in 85 signals and Yaskawa in 57. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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