FANUC alternatives

FANUC is the incumbent's incumbent: founded in 1972, headquartered in Oshino-mura in Japan's Yamanashi Prefecture, listed in Tokyo, employing 10,113 people and supporting its industrial and collaborative systems through more than 250 locations in over 105 countries. Most buyers who look beyond FANUC want a category it does not centre on — humanoids or warehouse mobile robots — rather than a bigger arm maker. Figure AI is the purest humanoid bet: a San Jose company founded in 2022 that has raised US$1.75B, is running commercial deployments in manufacturing and logistics including a United States automotive plant pilot, and has brought Figure 03 to the home market. Geek+ owns the warehouse-floor alternative: Beijing-founded in 2015, more than 1,000 employees, and AMR, AGV and AS/RS systems deployed in over 40 countries, with offices across the United States, Germany, the UK, Japan, South Korea and Singapore, plus a July 2025 Hong Kong listing. 1X Technologies splits its humanoids between settings — NEO entering United States homes through early access, EVE deployed with industrial customers globally — from a base in San Carlos, California, with founding roots and manufacturing in Norway. ABB Robotics is the one like-for-like rival here: industrial and collaborative systems with robotics origins in 1974, core engineering in Västerås, Sweden, roughly 7,000 employees and a service network spanning more than 50 countries. Choose Figure AI or 1X for humanoid programmes, Geek+ for warehouse automation, and ABB when the requirement stays industrial but a second global incumbent belongs on the tender list.

Alternatives to FANUC

Figure AI

Figure AI is a California company building general-purpose humanoid robots powered by its own artificial intelligence.

Geek+

Geek+ is a Beijing-headquartered supplier of autonomous mobile robots and software for warehouse order fulfilment, listed in Hong Kong since July 2025.

1X Technologies

1X is a humanoid robotics company founded in Norway in 2014 as Halodi Robotics and now based in San Carlos, California, according to its official site.

ABB Robotics

ABB Robotics is the robotics business of ABB Group, the Swiss-Swedish automation and electrification group headquartered in Zurich.

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