5 Biggest Robotics Companies in the World

Below you can find the list of the 5 biggest robotics companies in the world. For detailed coverage of this topic and a more comprehensive list, please see the 15 biggest robotics companies in the world.

5. Midea Group

Revenue: $39.9 billion

Market Cap: $52.9 billion

Assets: $40 billion

Number of employees: 114,765

Headquarters: Foshan, China

Midea is certainly a reliable and respected brand in the world of electronic appliances. As smart machines and smart factories are entering a new era of industrial production, the Midea Group is offering its innovation to the robotics industry. Today, Midea Group deploys over 800 robots in production. In 2016, Midea acquired KUKA, a German-robotics company representative of Industry 4.0. for $5 billion. Aside from the internal industrial automation of the company’s facilities, Midea Group offers manufacturing solutions for the manufacturing industry.

4. Denso Corp

Revenue: $47.4 billion

Market Cap: $227.6 billion

Assets: $52.4 billion

Number of employees: 171,992

Headquarters: Kariya, Japan

DENSO Corp. is engaged in the manufacture and sale of automotive components and systems, industrial products, and home appliances. DENSO builds industrial robots and programmable logic controllers used in manufacturing factory automation. The company also provides automatic identification products, code readers, and semiconductors.

3. Sony (NYSE: SNE)

Revenue: $79.2 billion

Market Cap: $78.7 billion

Assets: $208.3 billion

Number of employees: 114,400

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

For under $3,000, you can bring home your furry friend (minus the fur), AIBO. Sony designed and developed a robotic pet called AIBO. This dog bot has the ability to communicate with its human owner in many of the same ways that a living pet would, without the high maintenance. 

2. Siemens AG

Revenue: $97.4 billion

Market Cap: $75.4 billion

Assets: $171 billion

Number of employees: 385,000

Headquarters: Munich, Germany

The second-largest robotics company in the world is Siemens AG. Siemens AG is a global major player focusing on the areas of power generation, smart building infrastructure and distributed energy systems, and automation and digitization in the process and manufacturing industries. In 2019, a subsidiary of Siemens, Siemens Healthineers acquired Corindus Vascular Robotics for $1.1 billion.

1. Honda Motor

Revenue: $142.4 billion

Market Cap: $42.6 billion

Assets: $188.5 billion

Number of employees: 219,722

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Topping the list of the 15 biggest robotics companies in the world is Honda Motor. Honda Robotics developed the “most advanced humanoid robot”, ASIMO (Advanced Step Innovative Mobility) with the aim of creating robots that will coexist with and be useful to humans. Today, Honda offers next-gen walking assistive devices that support people with weakened leg muscles. In 2018, Honda launched 3E-A18, an interactive robot that supports people’s activities by acknowledging emotions and communicating with facial expressions, sound, and movement.