Keyence ranks 12 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; Zebra Technologies ranks 41 with 84. Keyence is ahead on deployment, production, commercials and positioning. Zebra Technologies is ahead on progress. Level on technology, firepower and leverage. Keyence is based in Osaka, Japan, Zebra Technologies in Lincolnshire, United States. Keyence: Public. Zebra Technologies: Public. Keyence is named in 15 signals and Zebra Technologies in 18.
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.
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Zebra marketed Fetch autonomous mobile robots and its Symmetry Fulfillment robot-assisted picking solution to logistics and warehouse customers.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Zebra Technologies is a US enterprise-sensing company (Nasdaq:ZBRA) whose machine-vision and robotics assets include Photoneo 3D vision (folded into its Aurora machine-vision suite) and Fetch Robotics AMRs, serving 80%+ of the Fortune 500. It completed the Photoneo acquisition in March 2025, expanding 3D machine vision for automotive manufacturing and logistics. Group revenue and the vision and robotics segment figures are not broken out (group-scoped), and Fetch AMR volumes are undisclosed.
18 signals name Zebra Technologies.
20 facts on file.
Keyence ranks 12 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; Zebra Technologies ranks 41 with 84. Keyence is ahead on deployment, production, commercials and positioning. Zebra Technologies is ahead on progress. Level on technology, firepower and leverage. Keyence is based in Osaka, Japan, Zebra Technologies in Lincolnshire, United States. Keyence: Public. Zebra Technologies: Public. Keyence is named in 15 signals and Zebra Technologies in 18.
Keyence ranks 12 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; Zebra Technologies ranks 41 with 84. Keyence is ahead on deployment, production, commercials and positioning. Zebra Technologies is ahead on progress. Level on technology, firepower and leverage. Keyence is based in Osaka, Japan, Zebra Technologies in Lincolnshire, United States. Keyence: Public. Zebra Technologies: Public. Keyence is named in 15 signals and Zebra Technologies in 18. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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