Gold · #1 New Industrial Arm
Automated Surface Finishing Cell
ABB · 2026
no named customer yet
70.93
RoboIndex
65.69 score + 5.24 momentum
Industrial Arm · scores as of 25 Oct 2026
New Industrial Arm Robots
The 2025+ class — 62 robots launched 2025 or later, ranked against each other by RoboIndex: RoboScore plus up to 15 points for a maker in the news. This is its own ranking of the new class; the main standing ranks by RoboScore.
Silver · #2 New Industrial Arm
KR AGILUS ultra
KUKA Robotics · 2026
no named customer yet
69.11
RoboIndex
63.87 score + 5.24 momentum
Bronze · #3 New Industrial Arm
R-2000
FANUC · 2025
no named customer yet
67.07
RoboIndex
60.11 score + 6.96 momentum
The rest of the class
4–25 of 62#
Robot · maker
RoboIndex
Score Δ
23
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62 in the class3 changed their own score this week
The class is launch year 2025 or later — and newness is the door, not the score. Inside the arena, robots are ranked exactly as they are on the main standing. Winning here means being the best-evidenced of the new generation, not merely the newest.
A robot with no recorded launch year is not in this class. An unknown year cannot convict a robot of being old on the main standing, and it cannot claim newness here. Absence of data never renders as a verdict — in either direction.
Momentum belongs to the maker, not the robot. It is labelled that way in the table, and it reads as an em dash where we have no news signal at all — never as a zero.