{"title":"FANUC vs Mitsubishi Electric: Industrial arms & cobots compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/fanuc-vs-mitsubishi-electric","comparison":"FANUC ranks 6 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 94; Mitsubishi Electric ranks 85 with 79. FANUC is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology, positioning and leverage. Level on progress and firepower. FANUC is based in Oshino, Japan, Mitsubishi Electric in Tokyo, Japan. FANUC: Public, founded 1972. Mitsubishi Electric: Established. FANUC is named in 111 signals and Mitsubishi Electric in 101.","companies":[{"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},{"name":"Mitsubishi Electric","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/mitsubishi-electric","city":"Tokyo","country":"Japan","stage":"Established","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Mitsubishi Electric makes MELFA industrial robots (including the heavy-payload RV-35/50/80FR series) within the Factory Automation segment of its ~JPY 5.5T group, part of its e-F@ctory ecosystem. No robot-specific dated 2025-26 activity was found this pass (its latest major launch was the RV-35/50/80FR in May 2024). Robots are not broken out (estimated 100-500m line), and it is a structurally necessary FA giant.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":85,"score":79,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":8,"deployment":8,"production":8,"technology":6},"why":"Mitsubishi Electric makes MELFA industrial robot arms, along with PLCs and factory-automation systems used with them.","segment":"Industrial arms & cobots","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":101,"facts_total":66}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}