{"title":"Denso Wave vs FANUC: Industrial arms & cobots compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/denso-wave-vs-fanuc","comparison":"FANUC ranks 6 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 94; Denso Wave ranks 59 with 81. FANUC is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress and positioning. Level on technology, firepower and leverage. Denso Wave is based in Agui, Japan, FANUC in Oshino, Japan. FANUC: Public, founded 1972. Denso Wave is named in 0 signals and FANUC in 111.","companies":[{"name":"Denso Wave","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/denso-wave","city":"Agui","country":"Japan","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED is a Denso Corporation subsidiary (75% owned) that develops, manufactures and sells automatic identification equipment (originator of QR Code), compact industrial robots and cobots (COBOTTA, COBOTTA PRO, VS/HSR/VMB series), programmable controllers and IoT systems. For the year ended March 31 2026 it reported 49.4 billion yen sales (company primary source; FA/robot products 24%). In August 2025 it began providing the modular laboratory automation system COBOTTA LAB Modules, with software updates (QR calibration January 2025) and exhibitions through 2026. Distinguishing combination of auto-ID heritage with high-speed compact robots drawn from Denso production technology.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":59,"score":81,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":6,"firepower":10,"commercial":8,"deployment":8,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"Denso Wave develops COBOTTA products and launched COBOTTA LAB Modules, placing it in industrial collaborative robot systems. Its QR Code Calibration and monitoring capability also supports RC9/COBOTTA robot controllers.","segment":"Industrial arms & cobots","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":0,"facts_total":8},{"name":"FANUC","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/fanuc","city":"Oshino","country":"Japan","stage":"Public","founded":1972,"last_round":null,"positioning":"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.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":6,"score":94,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":8,"position":10,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":10,"deployment":10,"production":10,"technology":8},"why":"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.","segment":"Industrial arms & cobots","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":111,"facts_total":136}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}