{"title":"Universal Robots vs Yaskawa: Industrial arms & cobots compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/universal-robots-vs-yaskawa","comparison":"Yaskawa ranks 11 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 91; Universal Robots ranks 24 with 87. Universal Robots is ahead on positioning. Yaskawa is ahead on production, commercials, progress and firepower. Level on deployment, technology and leverage. Universal Robots is based in Odense, Denmark, Yaskawa in Kitakyushu, Japan. Universal Robots: Established. Yaskawa: Established. Universal Robots is named in 92 signals and Yaskawa in 57.","companies":[{"name":"Universal Robots","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/universal-robots","city":"Odense","country":"Denmark","stage":"Established","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Universal Robots is a Danish cobot pioneer (a Teradyne unit) with 100,000+ cobots sold and about 12,500 shipped a year, with UR revenue of $293M in FY2024 (the parent unit $91M in Q1-26). It launched an AI Trainer with Scale AI in March 2026 and posted four consecutive growth quarters, though Teradyne cut staff in 2025 and it faces a JAKA patent suit (August 2026). Stated capacity and UR-only revenue for 2025-26 are the open items.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":24,"score":87,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":10,"progress":9,"firepower":8,"commercial":8,"deployment":10,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"Universal Robots designs and sells collaborative robot arms and complete cobot platforms, including its UR-series robots, Gen 7 platform, controllers, and industrial workcell deployments.","segment":"Industrial arms & cobots","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":92,"facts_total":48},{"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."}