{"title":"AGILE Robots vs Yaskawa: Industrial arms & cobots compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/agile-robots-vs-yaskawa","comparison":"Yaskawa ranks 11 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; AGILE Robots ranks 32 with 85. Yaskawa is ahead on production, commercials and firepower. Level on deployment, progress, technology, positioning and leverage. AGILE Robots is based in Munich, Germany, Yaskawa in Kitakyushu, Japan. AGILE Robots: Established. Yaskawa: Established. AGILE Robots is named in 70 signals and Yaskawa in 57.","companies":[{"name":"AGILE Robots","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/agile-robots","city":"Munich","country":"Germany","stage":"Established","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"AGILE Robots is a Germany/China maker of Diana and Thor arms, iw.hub AMRs (850+ at BMW), and the Agile ONE humanoid, with 20,000+ robotic systems installed (doubled in H2-25) and 2025 revenue of ~$339M (Sacra estimate), guiding $690M for 2026 (+104%). It has absorbed Franka Emika, idealworks, and audEERING, and is in discussion for a ~$800M round (SoftBank expected at $300M+), with profitability targeted 2028-29. It combines arms, AMRs, and a humanoid on an acquisition-fueled scale-up.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":32,"score":85,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":8,"commercial":8,"deployment":10,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"AGILE Robots develops and sells industrial robotic systems, including Franka Robotics systems, the Yu 5 Industrial robot, and Diana 7, with more than 20,000 systems deployed worldwide.","segment":"Industrial arms & cobots","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":70,"facts_total":52},{"name":"Yaskawa","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/yaskawa","city":"Kitakyushu","country":"Japan","stage":"Established","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"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.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":11,"score":91,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":10,"deployment":10,"production":10,"technology":8},"why":"Yaskawa develops and sells MOTOMAN industrial robots, collaborative robots, heavy-object transport robots, and autonomous robot systems for manufacturing and other industrial markets.","segment":"Industrial arms & cobots","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":57,"facts_total":25}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}