FANUC ranks 6 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 94; Yaskawa ranks 11 with 91. FANUC is ahead on positioning. Level on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, firepower and leverage. FANUC is based in Oshino, Japan, Yaskawa in Kitakyushu, Japan. FANUC: Public, founded 1972. Yaskawa: Established. FANUC is named in 111 signals and Yaskawa in 57.
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.
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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.
57 signals name Yaskawa.
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FANUC ranks 6 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 94; Yaskawa ranks 11 with 91. FANUC is ahead on positioning. Level on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, firepower and leverage. FANUC is based in Oshino, Japan, Yaskawa in Kitakyushu, Japan. FANUC: Public, founded 1972. Yaskawa: Established. FANUC is named in 111 signals and Yaskawa in 57.
FANUC ranks 6 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 94; Yaskawa ranks 11 with 91. FANUC is ahead on positioning. Level on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, firepower and leverage. FANUC is based in Oshino, Japan, Yaskawa in Kitakyushu, Japan. FANUC: Public, founded 1972. Yaskawa: Established. FANUC is named in 111 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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