{"title":"Teradyne vs Yaskawa: Industrial arms & cobots compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/teradyne-vs-yaskawa","comparison":"Yaskawa ranks 11 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; Teradyne ranks 94 with 78. Yaskawa is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology and leverage. Level on positioning and firepower. Teradyne is based in North Reading, United States, Yaskawa in Kitakyushu, Japan. Teradyne: Public, founded 1960. Yaskawa: Established. Teradyne is named in 55 signals and Yaskawa in 57.","companies":[{"name":"Teradyne","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/teradyne","city":"North Reading","country":"United States","stage":"Public","founded":1960,"last_round":null,"positioning":"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).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":94,"score":78,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":8,"progress":9,"firepower":10,"commercial":8,"deployment":8,"production":8,"technology":6},"why":"Teradyne sells Universal Robots collaborative robot arms and MiR autonomous mobile robots for production environments.","segment":"Industrial arms & cobots","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":55,"facts_total":74},{"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."}