Corporate Research
Corporate Research: Industrial Robots — FANUC and Yaskawa Electric
FANUC, maker of the familiar "yellow robots," and Yaskawa Electric, which built the world's first all-electric industrial robot. FANUC leads on revenue, Yaskawa on headcount. From company history and five years of results to a comparison of CNC and servo/inverter businesses, "MOTOMAN NEXT" — an autonomous robot with a built-in NVIDIA GPU — facilities, and mid-term plans.