Yaskawa ranks 11 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; Denso Wave ranks 59 with 81. Yaskawa is ahead on deployment, production, commercials and progress. Level on technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Denso Wave is based in Agui, Japan, Yaskawa in Kitakyushu, Japan. Yaskawa: Established. Denso Wave is named in 0 signals and Yaskawa in 57.
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.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
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.
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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.
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Yaskawa ranks 11 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; Denso Wave ranks 59 with 81. Yaskawa is ahead on deployment, production, commercials and progress. Level on technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Denso Wave is based in Agui, Japan, Yaskawa in Kitakyushu, Japan. Yaskawa: Established. Denso Wave is named in 0 signals and Yaskawa in 57.
Yaskawa ranks 11 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; Denso Wave ranks 59 with 81. Yaskawa is ahead on deployment, production, commercials and progress. Level on technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Denso Wave is based in Agui, Japan, Yaskawa in Kitakyushu, Japan. Yaskawa: Established. Denso Wave is named in 0 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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