Industrial Robot Manufacturers

Industrial robots are the articulated arms, SCARA and delta machines that weld car bodies, tend CNC machines, palletize cases and place electronics components. The market is old and concentrated: FANUC, ABB, Yaskawa and KUKA have shipped robots since the 1970s and together hold a large share of the installed base, with Kawasaki, Nachi, Epson, DENSO and Mitsubishi Electric close behind in their specialties.

China is now the largest market for new installations, and domestic makers such as Estun, Inovance, EFORT and SIASUN compete hard on price in general handling and welding cells. Buyers comparing brands usually weigh payload and reach, repeatability, controller and programming ecosystem, and — often decisive over a 10–15 year service life — local parts and service coverage.

Each profile below lists the maker's headquarters, founding year, product lines and listing status, and links to our robot reference pages and news coverage where we have them. Where a brand has independent service providers in our US repair directory, the profile links there too.

By country

• Japan: 9
• China: 4
• Switzerland: 2
• USA: 2
• Italy: 1
• South Korea: 1
• Germany: 1

Industrial Robot Manufacturers

• ABB Robotics — Switzerland · founded 1988 · ABBN.SW — Robotics division of Swiss-Swedish engineering group ABB, whose predecessor ASEA launched one of the first all-electric microprocessor-controlled industrial robots in 1974.
• Comau — Italy · founded 1973 · owned by One Equity Partners — Italian automation company that grew out of Fiat's production-engineering arm.
• DENSO Wave — Japan · founded 2001 · owned by DENSO Corporation — Robotics and automatic-identification subsidiary of automotive supplier DENSO.
• EFORT Intelligent Equipment — China · founded 2007 · 688165.SS — Chinese industrial robot maker founded with backing from automaker Chery.
• Epson Robots — Japan · founded 1942 · 6724.T — Robotics business of Seiko Epson and a leading maker of SCARA robots, which it first built for its own watch and printer assembly lines.
• Estun Automation — China · founded 1993 · 002747.SZ — One of China's largest domestic industrial robot makers, with its own servo drives and controllers.
• FANUC — Japan · founded 1972 · 6954.T — One of the world's largest industrial robot makers, with a very large installed base of arms in automotive, electronics and general industry.
• HD Hyundai Robotics — South Korea · founded 2020 · owned by HD Hyundai — South Korea's largest industrial robot maker, spun out of Hyundai Heavy Industries' robot business (active since 1984) in 2020.
• Inovance Technology — China · founded 2003 · 300124.SZ — Chinese industrial-automation and drives company whose SCARA and small six-axis robots have taken significant share in China's electronics and battery industries, built on its own servos and controllers.
• Kawasaki Robotics — Japan · founded 1896 · 7012.T — Robot division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, which built Japan's first industrial robot in 1969 under license from Unimation.
• KUKA — Germany · founded 1898 · owned by Midea Group — German automation company whose orange robot arms are a fixture of automotive body shops.
• Mind Robotics — USA · founded 2025 · private — Industrial AI robotics lab spun out of Rivian in November 2025, founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe.
• Mitsubishi Electric — Japan · founded 1921 · 6503.T — Japanese electrical and factory-automation conglomerate that sells MELFA industrial robots alongside its PLCs, servos and CNC controls, letting integrators build cells on a single control ecosystem.
• Nachi-Fujikoshi — Japan · founded 1928 · 6474.T — Japanese maker of industrial robots, bearings, cutting tools and hydraulics.
• OMRON — Japan · founded 1933 · 6645.T — Japanese industrial-automation company that expanded into robotics by acquiring US robot maker Adept Technology in 2015.
• Path Robotics — USA · founded 2018 · private — Ohio startup building AI-driven robotic welding cells that scan parts and plan welds without manual programming, aimed at fabrication shops facing welder shortages.
• SIASUN Robot & Automation — China · founded 2000 · 300024.SZ — Shenyang-based robotics company that grew out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Shenyang Institute of Automation.
• Stäubli Robotics — Switzerland · founded 1892 · private — Family-owned Swiss mechatronics group best known in robotics for fast, precise arms suited to cleanroom, food, pharmaceutical and machine-tool work.
• Yamaha Motor Robotics — Japan · founded 1955 · 7272.T — Factory-automation arm of Yamaha Motor, making SCARA robots, single-axis and Cartesian robots, and linear conveyor modules used in electronics and small-parts assembly.
• Yaskawa (Motoman) — Japan · founded 1915 · 6506.T — Japanese motion-control and robotics company that sells robots under the Motoman brand.

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• Humanoid Robot Companies — 32 companies
• Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) Companies — 30 companies
• Quadruped Robot Companies — 6 companies