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Aethon vs Shanghai Keenon Robotics

A maker's RoboScore compares brands across six factors. Buyers pick a brand before they pick a model — this grades the maker, not a single robot.

Aethon
Strong line, quiet
62
Strong evidence
VS
Shanghai Keenon Robotics
Breakout maker
59
Strong evidence
PRODUCTS6362DEPTH77100ACTIVITY2593ATTENTION3620READINESS2420EVIDENCE5646
▲63
Products
62
77
Depth
100▲
25
Activity
93▲
▲36
Attention
20
▲24
Readiness
20
▲56
Evidence
46
AethonShanghai Keenon Robotics▲ leads this factor

A maker's RoboScore is rated on Products 65% · Depth 5% · Evidence 30% — present for every company. Attention feeds Evidence; the rest are shown but move nothing. A hollow grey vertex means no data, not a low score. Claiming or paying moves nothing.

What the shapes say

Aethon leads 4 of the six factors. The widest gap is Activity — Shanghai Keenon Robotics by 68 points.

ProductsAethon +1

How good the robots this brand ships actually are, on the same RoboScore used for every robot.

DepthShanghai Keenon Robotics +23

How many distinct robots this brand ships. Worth at most five points — a deep catalogue is a fact about a brand, not a verdict on it.

ActivityShanghai Keenon Robotics +68

Whether the brand has shipped or announced something real recently, or has gone quiet. Built from product milestones and launch dates — not from news coverage, which is the separate Momentum score on the rankings.

Shown on the hexagon, but does not move the rating.

AttentionAethon +16

How much independent editorial press is covering this brand right now. Attention, not quality — it is one half of Evidence rather than a slice of its own, and a brand we hold no coverage for loses nothing.

No weight of its own — it feeds Evidence, and can only add to it.

ReadinessAethon +4

Whether the practical integration facts — certifications, software, warranty, lead time — are published.

Shown on the hexagon, but does not move the rating.

EvidenceAethon +10

Independent proof this brand is real: customer deployments we have verified, and recent editorial coverage. Every company starts from the same baseline and earns the points above it — nothing a maker claims, declares or pays for counts here.

Side by side

Public catalog data. Nothing here is self-reported by the maker.

62
Rating
59
Strong line, quiet
Archetype
Breakout maker
5
Active products
16
3
Categories
4
US$108K
Price range
1 / 9 priced
US$6K – US$100K
Top-rated robot
0
In R&D
not yet commercial
0
United States
HQ
China
1967
Founded
2010

Where they overlap

Only Aethon
AMR (Warehouse)2
Only Shanghai Keenon Robotics
Commercial Cleaning2Humanoid1