{"title":"Mitsubishi Electric vs Yaskawa: Industrial arms & cobots compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/mitsubishi-electric-vs-yaskawa","comparison":"Yaskawa ranks 11 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; Mitsubishi Electric ranks 85 with 79. Yaskawa is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology and leverage. Level on progress, positioning and firepower. Mitsubishi Electric is based in Tokyo, Japan, Yaskawa in Kitakyushu, Japan. Mitsubishi Electric: Established. Yaskawa: Established. Mitsubishi Electric is named in 101 signals and Yaskawa in 57.","companies":[{"name":"Mitsubishi Electric","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/mitsubishi-electric","city":"Tokyo","country":"Japan","stage":"Established","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Mitsubishi Electric makes MELFA industrial robots (including the heavy-payload RV-35/50/80FR series) within the Factory Automation segment of its ~JPY 5.5T group, part of its e-F@ctory ecosystem. No robot-specific dated 2025-26 activity was found this pass (its latest major launch was the RV-35/50/80FR in May 2024). Robots are not broken out (estimated 100-500m line), and it is a structurally necessary FA giant.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":85,"score":79,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":8,"deployment":8,"production":8,"technology":6},"why":"Mitsubishi Electric makes MELFA industrial robot arms, along with PLCs and factory-automation systems used with them.","segment":"Industrial arms & cobots","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":101,"facts_total":66},{"name":"Yaskawa","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/yaskawa","city":"Kitakyushu","country":"Japan","stage":"Established","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"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.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":11,"score":91,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":10,"deployment":10,"production":10,"technology":8},"why":"Yaskawa develops and sells MOTOMAN industrial robots, collaborative robots, heavy-object transport robots, and autonomous robot systems for manufacturing and other industrial markets.","segment":"Industrial arms & cobots","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":57,"facts_total":25}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}