# European robotics

> Ten European robotics companies: ABB Robotics, KUKA, Universal Robots, Comau, Stäubli, MiR, Robotnik, Franka Robotics, Neura Robotics, Wandelbots.

European robotics companies worth knowing | Euronomy

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Industrial robotics has historically been a tripod: Japan (Fanuc, Yaskawa), Europe (ABB, KUKA) and US (very limited at the top). The Japanese majors dominate raw industrial robot-arm sales; the European players (ABB and KUKA) compete for the automotive integration market alongside them. But the most interesting European story now is the next-generation collaborative-robot (cobot) and humanoid-robot ecosystem: Universal Robots in Denmark essentially invented the cobot category; Franka Robotics and Neura Robotics in Germany are pushing into sensitive-touch and humanoid; MiR (also Danish) leads in autonomous mobile robots for warehouses.

KUKA is the honest caveat in this list, bought by China's Midea Group in 2016, which is structurally a sovereignty concern for European industrial automation. The other major European brand, Comau, is part of Italy's Stellantis-adjacent industrial empire and remains European-controlled.

Below: ten European robotics companies worth knowing across industrial, collaborative, mobile and humanoid categories.