Keyence ranks 12 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; RoboSense ranks 68 with 80. Keyence is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, positioning, firepower and leverage. RoboSense is ahead on progress. Level on technology. Keyence is based in Osaka, Japan, RoboSense in Shenzhen, China. Keyence: Public. Keyence is named in 15 signals and RoboSense in 25.
Keyence supplies industrial automation equipment, including PLCs, servo systems, programming software and multi-axis commissioning tools used in automated production and robotic manufacturing environments.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
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.
15 signals name Keyence.
7 facts on file.
RoboSense develops and sells LiDAR sensors, including the E2 and Peacock platforms, for cars and robots such as robotic lawn mowers.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
RoboSense is a Chinese lidar maker whose robotics lidar is now its explicit primary growth engine (282,600 robotics units in H1-26, +510% YoY, versus 719,200 total, +170%), on H1-26 revenue of RMB 1.02B (~$142M, +30.2%) with narrowing losses. It unveiled a new EOCENE SPAD-SoC architecture plus Phoenix/Peacock chipsets, and narrowed its FY25 net loss by more than half to RMB 180M, with one source reporting a first quarterly profit in February 2026 (unconfirmed by primary filing this pass). It is not yet profitable.
25 signals name RoboSense.
34 facts on file.
Keyence ranks 12 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; RoboSense ranks 68 with 80. Keyence is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, positioning, firepower and leverage. RoboSense is ahead on progress. Level on technology. Keyence is based in Osaka, Japan, RoboSense in Shenzhen, China. Keyence: Public. Keyence is named in 15 signals and RoboSense in 25.
Keyence ranks 12 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; RoboSense ranks 68 with 80. Keyence is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, positioning, firepower and leverage. RoboSense is ahead on progress. Level on technology. Keyence is based in Osaka, Japan, RoboSense in Shenzhen, China. Keyence: Public. Keyence is named in 15 signals and RoboSense in 25. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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