{"title":"Keyence vs Orbbec: Vision & 3D perception compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/keyence-vs-orbbec","comparison":"Keyence ranks 12 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; Orbbec ranks 17 with 88. Keyence is ahead on commercials, positioning and firepower. Orbbec is ahead on progress. Level on deployment, production, technology and leverage. Keyence is based in Osaka, Japan, Orbbec in Shenzhen, China. Keyence: Public. Orbbec: Public, founded 2013. Keyence is named in 15 signals and Orbbec in 26.","companies":[{"name":"Keyence","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/keyence","city":"Osaka","country":"Japan","stage":"Public","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Keyence is a Japanese machine-vision and sensor giant (TSE:6861, ~$6.5B revenue, famously >50% operating margins) whose CV-X and RB series 3D vision serve bin picking, sold through a direct-sales consultative model across a broad sensing and inspection catalog. It is the profitability benchmark of the sensing layer, named across every vision-guided-robotics roundup, with momentum scored low only on the absence of dated 2026 events this pass, not weakness. The current revenue marker is dated.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":12,"score":91,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["technology","firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":10,"progress":7,"firepower":10,"commercial":10,"deployment":10,"production":10,"technology":8},"why":"Keyence supplies industrial automation equipment, including PLCs, servo systems, programming software and multi-axis commissioning tools used in automated production and robotic manufacturing environments.","segment":"Vision & 3D perception","layer":"Sensing"},"signals_total":15,"facts_total":7},{"name":"Orbbec","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/orbbec","city":"Shenzhen","country":"China","stage":"Public","founded":2013,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Orbbec is a Chinese 3D-vision maker (SSE:688322) with 3,000+ customers across ~100 countries and a claimed >70% share of China's service-robot market, whose FY25 revenue was RMB 941M ($136M, +66.7%) as it turned profitable. It announced a Basler technology partnership (March 2026, extending to joint chip-level and system integration), a CES 2026 Gemini 305 launch with full Jetson Thor compatibility, and a China-Vietnam dual manufacturing hub. It manufactures its own products at millions-unit scale.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":17,"score":88,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["technology"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":9,"firepower":9,"commercial":8,"deployment":10,"production":10,"technology":8},"why":"Orbbec develops and sells 3D cameras and vision solutions for robots, including Gemini stereo cameras deployed with global automation companies and used in Universal Robots' AI Trainer.","segment":"Vision & 3D perception","layer":"Sensing"},"signals_total":26,"facts_total":62}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}