{"title":"Carbon Robotics vs Epiroc: Field & outdoor compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/carbon-robotics-vs-epiroc","comparison":"Epiroc ranks 4 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 96; Carbon Robotics ranks 58 with 81. Carbon Robotics is ahead on progress. Epiroc is ahead on deployment, commercials, positioning, firepower and leverage. Level on production and technology. Carbon Robotics is based in Seattle, United States, Epiroc in Stockholm, Sweden. Carbon Robotics: private. Carbon Robotics is named in 14 signals and Epiroc in 2.","companies":[{"name":"Carbon Robotics","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/carbon-robotics","city":"Seattle","country":"United States","stage":"private","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Carbon Robotics is a US maker of laser weeding systems (LaserWeeder G2, an AutoTractor kit) that crossed $100M in revenue for the fiscal year ending January 2026, serving hundreds of customers in 15 countries from plants in Richland WA and the Netherlands. It launched a Large Plant Model (150M labeled plants) in February 2026, raised $20M in October 2025 (~$177M total), and hired a public-company CFO, an IPO signal. It has about 260 employees.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":58,"score":81,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":6,"commercial":8,"deployment":8,"production":8,"technology":10},"why":"Carbon Robotics builds autonomous agricultural systems, including the LaserWeeder and Carbon Autonomy Tractor Kit for autonomous tractor operations and implement integration.","segment":"Field & outdoor","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":14,"facts_total":25},{"name":"Epiroc","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/epiroc","city":"Stockholm","country":"Sweden","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Epiroc is the clearest counterexample in this registry to the idea that industrial autonomy is still a pilot business. Its LinkOA platform is OEM-agnostic and mixed-fleet, meaning it runs machines it did not build, which is the structural difference from the closed autonomy stacks of Caterpillar and Komatsu. At Hancock Iron Ore Roy Hill in Australia, LinkOA controls 78 autonomous mining trucks and the site became in 2025 the world largest OEM-agnostic fully autonomous mine, with more than 350 million tonnes moved autonomously. Across the group, 3,900 driverless machines including mixed fleet were installed at the end of 2025, up 13 percent, alongside more than 100 CAS 9 collision-avoidance installations. FY2025 revenues were MSEK 61,998, down 3 percent reported but up 2 percent organically, with operating profit MSEK 11,925 at a 19.2 percent margin, operating cash flow MSEK 7,726, net debt to EBITDA 0.73 and around 19,000 employees across roughly 150 countries. The 2026 development to watch is downmarket: the Heidelberg Materials order dated 2026-06-04 extends LinkOA from mining into aggregates, deploying on Komatsu HD605 haul trucks in a mixed-fleet environment at a Western Australia quarry, testing whether autonomy economics survive outside the long predictable haul routes and enormous fleets that made the mining case obvious. Commercial scores 4 because autonomy and digital revenue is not broken out from the group total.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":4,"score":96,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["technology","firepower"],"leverage":10,"position":10,"progress":8,"firepower":10,"commercial":10,"deployment":10,"production":8,"technology":10},"why":"Epiroc builds and supplies autonomous mining systems, including SmartROC autonomous surface drill rigs, AutoNav-equipped loaders, and driverless haul-truck solutions for quarries and mines.","segment":"Field & outdoor","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":2,"facts_total":18}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}