FANUC Company Profile: History, Structure, Financials, Products, Leadership and Stock
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FANUC Corporation is a Japanese factory automation company with net sales of JPY 857.8 billion in its latest fiscal year, more than one million robots shipped and more than five million CNCs produced. It builds three things on one shared technology base: CNC and servo systems, robots, and compact machine tools. This profile sets out FANUC's history, structure, financial performance by division and region, factories, subsidiaries, leading products, technology strategy, management, shareholders and share data.
FANUC at a Glance
Fact | Detail |
Company | FANUC CORPORATION |
Origins | 1955, as a numerical control project team at Fuji Tsushinki Manufacturing, today Fujitsu |
Established | 1972, as FUJITSU FANUC LTD, independent from Fujitsu |
Headquarters | 3580 Shibokusa, Oshino-mura, Minamitsuru-gun, Yamanashi, Japan |
Paid-in capital | JPY 69 billion |
Net sales | JPY 857.8 billion in the year to March 31, 2026 |
Operating income | JPY 183.8 billion, a margin of 21.4% |
Businesses | FA, Robot, Robomachine and Service |
Cumulative output | 1 million robots shipped (2023); 5 million CNCs produced (2022) |
Stock listing | Tokyo Stock Exchange: 6954 |
President and CEO | Kenji Yamaguchi |
Company History: From an NC Project Team to One Million Robots
FANUC's history starts in 1955, when Fuji Tsushinki Manufacturing, the company now called Fujitsu, formed a project team to develop numerical controls. In 1956 the team developed the first NC and servo systems in the Japanese private sector, and in 1958 it shipped the first commercial FANUC NC to Makino Milling Machine. The name stands for Fuji Automatic Numerical Control.
The business became a separate company in 1972 as FUJITSU FANUC LTD. Two years later it developed robots and installed them in its own factories, and in 1977 it began commercial production and shipment of robots with the ROBOT-MODEL 1. The company took its current-style name, FANUC LTD, on July 1, 1982, and in 1984 moved its headquarters from Hino, Tokyo, to the foot of Mount Fuji.
Key milestones
1955: NC project team formed at Fuji Tsushinki Manufacturing.
1956: First NC and servo systems in the Japanese private sector.
1958: First commercial FANUC NC shipped to Makino Milling Machine.
1972: FUJITSU FANUC LTD founded as a company independent from Fujitsu.
1974: Robots developed and installed in FANUC's own factories.
1975: Wire-cut electric discharge machine completed.
1977: Commercial production and shipment of robots begins; FANUC USA is established.
1978: FANUC EUROPE S.A. established.
1982: GMFanuc Robotics Corporation formed in the United States with General Motors; the company is renamed FANUC LTD.
1984: Headquarters moves to Oshino-mura; the fully electric injection molding machine is developed.
1986: GE Fanuc Automation Corporation formed with General Electric.
1992: GMFanuc Robotics is restructured into FANUC Robotics Corporation, wholly owned by FANUC; BEIJING-FANUC Mechatronics is established.
1997: SHANGHAI-FANUC Robotics Co., Ltd. is formed in China.
2002: Robot cells achieve 720 hours of continuous unmanned operation.
2009: The joint venture with General Electric is dissolved; commercial production of delta robots starts.
2013: FANUC Europe Corporation and FANUC America Corporation are created by reorganizing subsidiaries.
2015: The CR-35iA collaborative robot is developed; cumulative robot volume reaches 400,000 units; a partnership with Preferred Networks is announced.
2017: Robot volume reaches 500,000 units.
2020: Founder and Honorary Chairman Dr. Seiuemon Inaba passes away.
2022: CNC production reaches 5 million units.
2023: Total shipments reach 1 million FANUC robots.
2024: The R-50iA robot controller is released and FANUC America opens its West Campus in Michigan.
Corporate Structure and Shareholders
FANUC is an independent listed company with no parent and no controlling shareholder. According to market data, institutions hold about 59% of the shares and the general public about 41%. The largest holders are asset managers: Nomura Asset Management with about 9.8%, BlackRock with about 8.9%, and Amova Asset Management, Daiwa Asset Management and Vanguard with roughly 4% each.
The company describes its organization as one FANUC: three businesses, FA, Robot and Robomachine, unified with Service. It is governed by a board with an Audit and Supervisory Committee, and a majority of the directors listed are outside directors.
Subsidiaries and joint ventures
FANUC America Corporation: Rochester Hills, Michigan, with offices across North and South America.
FANUC Europe Corporation: the European holding structure created in 2013, with national subsidiaries including Germany, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland and the Nordic countries.
SHANGHAI-FANUC Robotics Co., Ltd.: robot joint venture in China, formed in 1997.
BEIJING-FANUC Mechatronics: joint venture in China, established in 1992.
FANUC India Private Limited: fully owned since 2000.
KOREA FANUC and FANUC Taiwan: long-established regional companies; a robotics joint venture with Tatung in Taiwan dates from 1994.
FANUC Vietnam: established in 2003.
Financial Performance
FANUC's fiscal year runs from April to March. For the year that ended on March 31, 2026 it reported net sales of JPY 857.8 billion, up 7.6%, operating income of JPY 183.8 billion, up 15.7%, and net income attributable to owners of the parent of JPY 166.5 billion, up 12.9%. The operating margin was 21.4%.
Net sales by division
Division | Year to March 2025 | Year to March 2026 | Share |
FA | JPY 194.8 billion | JPY 208.5 billion | 24.3% |
Robot | JPY 329.6 billion | JPY 378.6 billion | 44.1% |
Robomachine | JPY 137.6 billion | JPY 129.6 billion | 15.1% |
Service | JPY 135.2 billion | JPY 141.1 billion | 16.5% |
Robots are the largest business and the main source of growth, at 44% of sales.
Net sales by region
Region | Year to March 2026 | Share |
The Americas | JPY 232.2 billion | 27.1% |
China | JPY 228.4 billion | 26.6% |
Europe | JPY 152.4 billion | 17.8% |
Asia excluding China | JPY 124.2 billion | 14.5% |
Japan | JPY 110.8 billion | 12.9% |
Other | JPY 9.9 billion | 1.1% |
Only about 13% of sales come from Japan, although almost all production takes place there.
Recent trend and forecast
Orders accelerated at the end of the fiscal year: fourth-quarter orders were JPY 252.0 billion, up 19.2% from a year earlier, led by China, where orders rose 55.2%. In the first quarter of the current fiscal year, April to June 2026, net sales rose 17.7% to JPY 231.0 billion and operating income rose 26.1% to JPY 53.5 billion. In July 2026 FANUC raised its full-year forecast to net sales of JPY 948.1 billion and net income of JPY 198.0 billion, from JPY 909.6 billion and JPY 184.9 billion forecast in April. The company applies a dividend payout ratio of 60%.
Factories and Production
FANUC manufactures in Japan, at four sites:
Headquarters, Oshino-mura, Yamanashi: about 1.78 million square meters of forest land. Assembly of CNCs, servo amplifiers, servo motors, robots, ROBOSHOT injection molding machines and ROBOCUT wire EDM machines, plus machining, press, die-casting and painting.
Mibu, Tochigi: about 700,000 square meters. CNCs, servo amplifiers, servo motors and robot controllers, from part machining to final test. FANUC describes it as its most advanced site, with networked equipment and automated transport between processes.
Tsukuba, Ibaraki: about 600,000 square meters. ROBODRILL assembly, robot and ROBODRILL part machining and painting, and robot controllers.
Hayato, Kagoshima: about 170,000 square meters. Sensors for servo motors.
The company uses its own robots to build robots, controllers and machine tools, and reports long periods of continuous unmanned machining.
Business Divisions
FA: CNC systems, servo motors, servo amplifiers and lasers supplied to machine tool builders, with the Series 500i-A as the current flagship CNC.
Robot: industrial and collaborative robots with payloads from about 500 grams to 2.3 tons, in more than 200 model variants.
Robomachine: ROBODRILL machining centers, ROBOSHOT electric injection molding machines and ROBOCUT wire EDM machines.
Service: FANUC's stated policy is to keep supporting products for as long as customers use them.
IoT: the FIELD system and related monitoring software, which run across the other businesses.
FANUC's Leading Products
Product | Type | Notes |
CRX series | Collaborative robot | The main cobot line, including long-arm versions and an explosion-proof CRX-10iA/L Paint model |
CRX-3iA | Lightweight collaborative robot | An 11 kg arm that one person can carry, shown for portable welding in 2026 |
CR-35iB | Collaborative robot | High-payload collaborative model |
R-2000 series | Large six-axis robot | The volume model for spot welding and handling; the new R-2000/E generation debuted in 2026 with eight configurations |
M-710, M-950 and M-1000 | Medium and large handling robots | Payloads of 70 kg and 500 kg and above |
M-410/800F-32C | Palletizing robot | Heavy palletizing |
SR series | SCARA robot | Includes the rack-mounted, high-speed SR-9iA/R |
DR/8-16B Stainless | Parallel link robot | All-stainless, long-reach robot for food processing |
P-55 | Paint robot | Mid-size paint robot and the first to use the R-50iA controller |
M-810 | Machining robot | Robot designed for machining tasks |
R-50iA | Robot controller | Supports Python and software PLC functions |
ROBOGUIDE, iRVision and ZDT | Software | Simulation, integrated vision and Zero Down Time monitoring |
ROBODRILL, ROBOSHOT, ROBOCUT | Robomachines | New DC series ROBODRILL and SC series ROBOSHOT in 2025 |
FANUC product reviews on All Things Cobots
Technology Strategy: Open Platforms and Physical AI
In December 2025, at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, FANUC presented what it calls open platforms and physical AI, and in March 2026 it set out the details with NVIDIA:
An official ROS 2 driver for FANUC robots.
Python supported as standard across the robot range, from 3 kg to 2.3 tons payload.
Integration of FANUC's ROBOGUIDE simulation software with NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Omniverse, so that digital twins of whole production lines can be built, with FANUC robots available as simulation-ready assets.
NVIDIA Jetson modules for real-time AI inference on the robot.
Voice commands that are turned into Python robot code.
FANUC Europe has said the company has received orders for more than 1,000 AI-enabled robots worldwide. The roots of this work go back to the partnership with Japan's Preferred Networks announced in 2015 and to the AI functions based on machine learning that FANUC began releasing in 2018.
Notable Projects and Facilities
General Motors: the GMFanuc Robotics joint venture of 1982 brought FANUC robots into the American car industry. It became wholly owned in 1992.
FANUC America West Campus: opened on July 10, 2024, in Oakland County, Michigan, at a cost of USD 110 million. The 650,000 square foot building houses a robot warehouse for quick delivery and centers for commissioning custom robot systems. FANUC America's operations in the county now cover more than 2 million square feet.
Unmanned production: since 2002 FANUC has run robot cells capable of 720 hours of continuous unmanned operation.
Automate 2026: FANUC America showed a bolt-tightening cell on a moving engine block built with Inbolt and NVIDIA technology, and a generative AI demonstration that converts spoken instructions into robot programs.
FANUC Academy: a dedicated training facility built at headquarters in 2018.
Leadership and Management
Name | Role |
Kenji Yamaguchi | Representative Director, President and CEO |
Ryuji Sasuga | Director, Senior Managing Officer and CFO |
Michael J. Cicco | Director; President and CEO, FANUC America Corporation |
Naoko Yamazaki, Hiroto Uozumi, Yoko Takeda | Outside Directors |
Toshiya Okada | Director, Standing Audit and Supervisory Committee Member |
The list reflects the company's published organization as of July 1, 2025. FANUC was built by Dr. Seiuemon Inaba, who led the original NC project and died in 2020 as Honorary Chairman. His son, Dr. Yoshiharu Inaba, attended the opening of the West Campus in 2024 as Chairman.
Stock Information
Item | Detail |
Listing | Tokyo Stock Exchange: 6954 |
US trading | American depositary receipts trade over the counter as FANUY |
Market capitalization | About USD 35.7 billion in October 2026 |
Share price | Equivalent to about USD 38.6 in October 2026 |
One-year change | Up about 22% |
Indices | Nikkei 225, TOPIX 100 and TOPIX Core 30 |
Dividend policy | 60% payout ratio |
Note: share prices are indicative figures as of early October 2026 and change daily. This section is general information, not investment advice.
Strengths and Challenges
Strengths
A leading position in both CNC controls and industrial robots, built on shared servo and control technology.
Operating margins above 20%.
Highly automated production concentrated in four Japanese sites.
A balanced regional mix, with the Americas, China and Europe each a major market.
A lifetime service commitment that ties customers to the brand.
Challenges
Results depend on capital spending cycles in machine tools, cars and electronics.
A quarter of sales come from China, where demand is volatile and local competitors are growing.
Production in Japan makes earnings sensitive to exchange rates; the forecast assumes JPY 150 to the US dollar.
Robomachine sales fell in the latest fiscal year.
Outlook
FANUC enters the second half of its fiscal year with rising orders and a raised forecast. Its product direction is clear from the 2025 and 2026 launches: a new R-2000/E large robot generation, lighter and more portable CRX cobots, the R-50iA controller with Python, and open interfaces that let AI developers work with its robots.
Current Catalogue Coverage
Catalogue checked on 15 October 2026: 74 associated product records. The links below are representative entries, rather than a claim that every historical model is currently available.
FANUC FAQ
Who owns FANUC?
FANUC Corporation is an independent, publicly traded company with no controlling shareholder. Institutions hold about 59% of the shares; the largest holders are Nomura Asset Management and BlackRock, each with under 10%.
Is FANUC publicly traded?
Yes. FANUC is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under the code 6954, and its American depositary receipts trade over the counter in the United States as FANUY.
When was FANUC founded?
The business began in 1955 as a numerical control project team at the company now called Fujitsu. FANUC was established as an independent company in 1972.
What does FANUC stand for?
Fuji Automatic Numerical Control.
Where is FANUC headquartered and where does it manufacture?
Headquarters are in Oshino-mura, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, at the foot of Mount Fuji. Production takes place at headquarters and at Mibu, Tsukuba and Hayato in Japan.
How big is FANUC?
In the fiscal year to March 2026 FANUC had net sales of JPY 857.8 billion and operating income of JPY 183.8 billion. Robots accounted for 44% of sales.
Who is the CEO of FANUC?
Kenji Yamaguchi is Representative Director, President and CEO.
How many robots has FANUC made?
FANUC reached total shipments of 1 million robots in 2023.
Sources
FANUC: corporate history
FANUC: corporate outline
FANUC: organization and management
FANUC: factories
FANUC: financial results reference, year to March 2026
FANUC: new products
FANUC America: one millionth robot
FANUC America: physical AI with NVIDIA technologies
FANUC America: West Campus grand opening
FANUC Europe: bringing physical AI to life
