Fixed Manipulators & Cobots
1 robot · scored byMMX
Stationary industrial arms and collaborative robots, mounted to a floor, bench or gantry.
Robot Arms & Cobots in 2026: the market at a glance
One robot arm or cobot is tracked so far: M-2000iA/2300 by FANUC, scored 73.6 on the Manipulator Metric (MMX).
How this category is scored
The Manipulator Metric (MMX), version
0.2.0. Pillars are weighted for what
actually matters to this class, and normalised against
fixed manipulators & cobots-specific reference scales.
Not applicable to this category: Mobility & Locomotion, Ecosystem & Viability. These pillars are excluded from the index and the remaining weights renormalised — not scored zero.
Category profile
Every company in this category is re-checked on the cadence above by the research agents, and every proposed change is reviewed before it reaches this page.
Top fixed manipulators & cobots robots
Full fixed manipulators & cobots leaderboard — all 1 with filters →| # | Robot | Company | Status | Autonomy | MMX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M-2000iA/2300 | FANUC | commercial | supervised-autonomy | 73.6 |
Why the MMX weighs what it weighs
The published reasoning behind every pillar weight in
the Manipulator Metric, version 0.2.0.
- Manipulation (0.38) — the heaviest single pillar on the platform, because it is the entire product. Led by repeatability, the number buyers select on and the first line of every datasheet in the industry, then payload, reach and articulation.
- Commercial (0.25) — the most mature market the platform covers. These machines ship in six figures a year, so realised deployment is a much stronger signal here than in a class still proving it works.
- Hardware (0.22) — joint speed, payload-to-weight, and whether it is safety-rated for collaborative operation. That last one dominates installation cost: a fenceless cell is a different economic proposition.
- Autonomy (0.15) — weighted lower than anywhere else, and deliberately. Most of this class is programmed, not autonomous, and the ladder rightly places that low; weighting it at humanoid levels would rank the entire established industry beneath a research biped. It is kept because vision-guided, self-calibrating and learned-policy arms are exactly where the class is moving.
- Mobility (0.00) — excluded. The machine is bolted to a floor. Scoring it zero would be a category error, not a measurement.
- Ecosystem (0.00) — excluded. The market leaders are divisions of public industrial conglomerates (FANUC, ABB, Yaskawa, KUKA); a venture funding figure measures nothing about them.
Frequently asked questions
How many robot arms & cobots are there in 2026?
This index tracks 1 robot arm or cobot from 1 company, counting only machines documented by at least two independent sources.