FANUC ranks 6 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 94; KUKA ranks 13 with 91. FANUC is ahead on positioning. Level on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, firepower and leverage. FANUC is based in Oshino, Japan, KUKA in Augsburg, Germany. FANUC: Public, founded 1972. KUKA: Established. FANUC is named in 111 signals and KUKA in 30.
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.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
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.
111 signals name FANUC.
136 facts on file.
KUKA develops and supplies industrial robotic systems, including KR Quantec robots used in CNC tending cells and the iiQKA robotics ecosystem. Its core business is industrial automation and robotic production equipment.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
KUKA is a German industrial-robot maker (Midea-owned, EUR 3.9B group revenue in 2025 including Swisslog) whose Shunde park in China is its largest robot production base (80,000+ cumulative), running a robots-build-robots line. Midea's robotics segment exceeded RMB 30bn (February 2025 statement), and its iisy cobot line extends the range. Segment splits below the group are not detailed.
30 signals name KUKA.
19 facts on file.
FANUC ranks 6 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 94; KUKA ranks 13 with 91. FANUC is ahead on positioning. Level on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, firepower and leverage. FANUC is based in Oshino, Japan, KUKA in Augsburg, Germany. FANUC: Public, founded 1972. KUKA: Established. FANUC is named in 111 signals and KUKA in 30.
FANUC ranks 6 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 94; KUKA ranks 13 with 91. FANUC is ahead on positioning. Level on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, firepower and leverage. FANUC is based in Oshino, Japan, KUKA in Augsburg, Germany. FANUC: Public, founded 1972. KUKA: Established. FANUC is named in 111 signals and KUKA in 30. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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