Epiroc ranks 4 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 96; John Deere ranks 28 with 86. Epiroc is ahead on deployment, commercials, technology and leverage. Level on production, progress, positioning and firepower. Epiroc is based in Stockholm, Sweden, John Deere in Moline, United States. John Deere: Established. Epiroc is named in 2 signals and John Deere in 25.
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.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
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.
2 signals name Epiroc.
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Through Bear Flag Robotics, GUSS Automation, and autonomous tractor initiatives, John Deere builds and deploys autonomous agricultural machinery for field and orchard operations.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
John Deere is a US agricultural-machinery giant (FY26 net-income guidance $4.75-5B) putting autonomy kits on 8R/9R tractors and running See & Spray on ~1/3 of North American sprayer orders (~2x YoY), with 520M engaged acres in its Operations Center. It acquired GUSS Automation (August 2025), launched See & Scout, and raised FY26 guidance despite a large-ag downturn. It is scaling autonomy across an existing installed base.
25 signals name John Deere.
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Epiroc ranks 4 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 96; John Deere ranks 28 with 86. Epiroc is ahead on deployment, commercials, technology and leverage. Level on production, progress, positioning and firepower. Epiroc is based in Stockholm, Sweden, John Deere in Moline, United States. John Deere: Established. Epiroc is named in 2 signals and John Deere in 25.
Epiroc ranks 4 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 96; John Deere ranks 28 with 86. Epiroc is ahead on deployment, commercials, technology and leverage. Level on production, progress, positioning and firepower. Epiroc is based in Stockholm, Sweden, John Deere in Moline, United States. John Deere: Established. Epiroc is named in 2 signals and John Deere in 25. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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