KUKA ranks 13 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; Teradyne ranks 94 with 78. KUKA is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology and leverage. Level on positioning and firepower. KUKA is based in Augsburg, Germany, Teradyne in North Reading, United States. KUKA: Established. Teradyne: Public, founded 1960. KUKA is named in 30 signals and Teradyne in 55.
KUKA develops and supplies industrial robotic systems, including KR Quantec robots used in CNC tending cells and the iiQKA robotics ecosystem. Its core business is industrial automation and robotic production equipment.
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KUKA is a German industrial-robot maker (Midea-owned, EUR 3.9B group revenue in 2025 including Swisslog) whose Shunde park in China is its largest robot production base (80,000+ cumulative), running a robots-build-robots line. Midea's robotics segment exceeded RMB 30bn (February 2025 statement), and its iisy cobot line extends the range. Segment splits below the group are not detailed.
30 signals name KUKA.
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Teradyne sells Universal Robots collaborative robot arms and MiR autonomous mobile robots for production environments.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Teradyne is a US maker of automated test equipment (Nasdaq:TER) and the parent of Universal Robots and MiR, which unveiled production-ready physical-AI applications at Automate 2026. Its robotics exposure runs through those subsidiaries (tracked as their own records).
55 signals name Teradyne.
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KUKA ranks 13 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; Teradyne ranks 94 with 78. KUKA is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology and leverage. Level on positioning and firepower. KUKA is based in Augsburg, Germany, Teradyne in North Reading, United States. KUKA: Established. Teradyne: Public, founded 1960. KUKA is named in 30 signals and Teradyne in 55.
KUKA ranks 13 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; Teradyne ranks 94 with 78. KUKA is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology and leverage. Level on positioning and firepower. KUKA is based in Augsburg, Germany, Teradyne in North Reading, United States. KUKA: Established. Teradyne: Public, founded 1960. KUKA is named in 30 signals and Teradyne in 55. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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