October 2026
Largest Automation & Robotics Public Companies in the US
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Johnson Controls, Emerson Electric, Honeywell, Teradyne and Rockwell Automation.
 | Following Johnson Controls’ divestiture of its residential and light commercial HVAC businesses to Bosch in 2025, nearly all of its revenue comes from commercial HVAC (60%) and fire and security products and services (40%). A 2016 merger joined Johnson Controls’ HVAC and Tyco’s fire and security businesses with the premise that there is synergy in offering a broader variety of automation products and solutions to commercial buildings. We estimate Johnson Controls’ pro forma revenue mix will be one-third products, one-third installation, and one-third services. | $156 | +28% | $95B | $104B | 4.4x | 34.1x | ||
| Emerson Electric is an American industrial technology company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, that makes automation and control systems, measurement and analytical instruments, test equipment, industrial software and professional tools. Its products serve process and discrete industries such as oil and gas, power generation, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, water treatment and heating and air conditioning in more than 150 countries, and it also makes radar and avionics equipment for aerospace and defence. The company was founded on September 24, 1890 by John Wesley Emerson as Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. to build electric motors, and in 1892 became the first to sell electric fans in the United States. Over the past decade it has reshaped itself around automation: it sold its Network Power business, now Vertiv, to Platinum Equity in 2016, sold its climate technologies business to Blackstone in stages between 2022 and 2024, and bought National Instruments for $8.2 billion in 2023; Aspen Technology is also a subsidiary. Emerson earns its revenue mainly by selling equipment, systems and software to industrial customers. In 2025 it reported revenue of $18.02 billion, operating income of $2.475 billion and net income of $2.293 billion, with about 71,000 employees. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is led by chief executive Lal Karsanbhai and chairman Jim Turley. | $164 | +17% | $91B | $102B | 5.7x | 21.8x | ||
| Honeywell traces its roots to 1885 with Albert Butz’s firm, Butz Thermo-Electric Regulator, which produced a predecessor to the modern thermostat. Other inventions by Honeywell include biodegradable detergent and autopilot. Today, Honeywell is a global multi-industry behemoth with one of the largest installed bases of equipment. It operates through four business segments: aerospace technologies, industrial automation, energy and sustainability solutions, and building automation. Recently, Honeywell has made several portfolio changes to focus on fewer end markets and align with a set of secular growth trends. The firm is working diligently to expand its installed base, deriving around one third of its revenue from recurring aftermarket services. | $207 | -49% | $66B | $91B | 2.4x | 11.6x | ||
| Teradyne provides testing equipment, including automated test equipment for semiconductors, system testing for hard disk drives, circuit boards, and electronics systems, and wireless testing for devices. The firm entered the industrial automation market in 2015 and sells collaborative and autonomous robots for factory applications. Teradyne serves numerous end markets and geographies, directly and indirectly, through its products, but its most significant exposure is to semiconductor testing. Teradyne serves vertically integrated, fabless, and foundry chipmakers with its equipment. | $380 | +109% | $59B | $59B | 18.6x | 76.7x | ||
| With roots tracing back to the early 1900s, Rockwell Automation is the successor to Rockwell International, which spun off its avionics segment in 2001. It is a pure-play industrial automation company that operates through three segments. Its largest segment by revenue, intelligent devices, sells factory floor-level devices such as motors, drives, sensors, relays, and actuators. Its software and control segment sells visualization, simulation, and human-machine interface software and control products such as programmable controllers, computers, and operator terminals. Its smallest segment, lifecycle services, offers digital consulting, engineered-to-order services, and other outsourced services such as remote monitoring, cybersecurity, and asset and plant maintenance and optimization. | $432 | +17% | $48B | $51B | 6.1x | 36.9x | ||
| Carrier Global, spun out of United Technologies in 2020, manufactures and services commercial and residential HVAC systems and transportation refrigeration solutions under its flagship Carrier brand, as well as Bryant, Payne, Heil, and others across various price points. In 2024, Carrier acquired Viessmann Climate Solutions to expand its footprint in Europe with heat pumps, boilers, and solar PV equipment. Proceeds from the sale of Carrier’s fire and security (Honeywell) and commercial refrigeration (Haier) businesses reduced debt and focused the company on global HVAC and refrigeration solutions. Carrier generates 75% of sales from equipment and 25% from parts and services. The company derives 50% of revenue from the US, 30% from Europe, and 20% from the Asia-Pacific region. | $55 | -7% | $45B | $57B | 2.6x | 16.5x | ||
| Moog Inc. manufactures precision motion and fluid control systems for aerospace, defense, and industrial markets. Its four segments are Space and Defense, Military Aircraft, Commercial Aircraft, and Industrial, with the majority of revenue from Space and Defense. The company provides components for defense vehicle platforms, missile systems, naval ships, submarines, and space launch vehicles, and spacecraft. Its products include actuation systems, motion platforms, motors, servo and proportional valves, slip rings, propulsion systems, and weapon stores management systems. it serves industries such as aerospace and defense, industrial automation, energy, marine, motorsport, simulation, and medical devices. It operates in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other regions. | $374 | +82% | $12B | $13B | 3.3x | 25.9x | ||
| Cognex Corp provides machine vision products that help automate manufacturing processes. The firm's products include vision software, vision systems, vision sensors, and ID products. Vision software combines vision tools with a customer's cameras and peripheral equipment and can help with several vision tasks, including part location, identification, measurement, and robotic guidance. Vision systems combine a camera, processor, and vision software into a single package. Vision sensors deliver simple, low-cost solutions for common vision applications, such as checking the size of parts. Geographically, it operates in United states, Europe, Greater China and others. Cognex generates the maximum proportion of its sales in the United States and Europe. | $60 | +45% | $10B | $9.8B | 9.8x | 45.7x | ||
| Acuity is a leading industrial technology company that offers lighting, lighting controls, and intelligent building solutions. It designs, manufactures, and brings to market products and services relating to these and other offerings. Acuity has two reportable segments: Acuity Brands Lighting and Acuity Intelligent Spaces. ABL sells commercial, architectural, and specialty lighting, including components and control systems. AIS offers building management and audio/visual solutions to help make buildings intelligent. | $301 | -18% | $9B | $9.1B | 2.1x | 13.8x | ||
| JBT Marel Corp is a technology solutions provider to segments of the food and beverage industry. It designs, produces, and services products and systems for a broad range of end markets, generating roughly one-half of annual revenue from recurring parts, services, rebuilds, and leasing operations. | $107 | -15% | $5.5B | $7.1B | 1.9x | 23.2x | ||
| Novanta Inc supplies core technology solutions to medical, life science, and advanced industrial OEMs, leveraging proprietary expertise in precision medicine, precision manufacturing, robotics and automation, and advanced surgery. It has two segments: Automation Enabling Technologies and Medical Solutions. Automation Enabling Technologies, which generates the majority of revenue, provides laser beam steering and scanning solutions, laser sources, and robotic and precision motion technologies. The Medical Solutions segment provides medical-grade technologies, including medical insufflators, endoscopic pumps, and integrated operating room technologies. The company operates in the United States, Germany, and other markets, with revenue generated from the United States. | $146 | +14% | $5.5B | $5.1B | 5.2x | 33.1x | ||
| Symbotic Inc. is an automation technology company that develops solutions to improve operating efficiencies in modern warehouses. The group designs, commercializes, and deploys end-to-end technology systems that significantly enhance supply chain operations. The company automates the processing of pallets, cases, and individual items within warehouse environments. Its systems strengthen operations at the front end of the supply chain and provide benefits to all supply partners downstream. The company operates in two geographical regions: the United States and international markets, with the majority of its revenue generated in the United States. | $41 | -49% | $5.3B | $4B | 1.8x | (114.6x) | ||
| Alarm.com Holdings Inc has a cloud-based platform that offers an expansive suite of IoT solutions addressing world-wide opportunities in the residential, multi-family, small business and enterprise commercial markets. It has two reportable segments: Alarm.com & Other. The Alarm.com segment represents the cloud-based Software platforms for intelligently connected property & related solutions. The other segment is focused on researching, developing & offering residential & commercial automation solutions & energy management products & services in adjacent markets. The majority of revenue is from the Alarm.com segment. The platform allows home & business owners to secure their properties and automate & control an array of connected device. | $56 | +14% | $2.8B | $2.9B | 2.9x | 15.7x | ||
| Allient Inc, formerly Allied Motion Technologies Inc designs, manufactures, and sells precision and specialty motion control components and systems. The firm primarily caters to the vehicle, medical, aerospace and defense, and electronics and industrial, pumps, and robotics sectors. It mainly operates and sells across the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia. Its products and solutions include nano precision positioning systems, servo control systems, motion controllers, digital servo amplifiers and drives, brushless servo, torque, and coreless motors, brush motors, integrated motor drives, gear motors, gearing, incremental and absolute optical encoders, active (electronic) and passive (magnetic) filters for power quality and harmonic issues. | $105 | +93% | $1.8B | $1.9B | 3.5x | 28.9x | ||
| Red Cat Holdings Inc is a drone technology company integrating robotic hardware and software for military, government, and commercial operations. Its suite of solutions includes the Arachnid family of ISR and precision strike drones, which includes the Black Widow, a small unmanned ISR system; and WEB (Warfighter Electronic Bridge) GCS, designed to command and control an entire drone family of systems for military operations. Its other offerings include Edge 130 Blue drone systems, Trichon, a fixed-wing VTOL for extended endurance and range, and FANG FPV drones optimized for military operations with precision strike capabilities. The firm's Division includes Teal, FlightWave, and Blue Ops. | $5 | -54% | $792M | $481M | 11.8x | (6.7x) | ||
| RoboStrategy Inc is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to seek long-term capital appreciation, principally through capital gains on equity and equity-linked investments in robotics and embodied AI companies. The Fund focuses on private, venture-capital-backed companies with growth potential, many of which are not yet publicly listed or widely accessible to individual investors. | PE & VC+2 | $27 | -- | $654M | $642M | |||
| Matthews International Corp is a provider of memorialization products, industrial technologies and brand solutions. The company's segments are Memorialization, Industrial Technologies and Brand Solutions. The memorialization offerings include bronze and granite memorials, caskets, and cremation-related products and equipment for cemeteries and funeral homes. Its Industrial Technologies segment designs, manufactures, services, and sells custom energy storage systems and product identification and warehouse automation solutions. The Brand Solutions segment provides brand management, pre-media, printing plates and cylinders, imaging, digital asset management, merchandising displays, and marketing and design services. The majority of revenue is generated by Memorialization. | $19 | -20% | $587M | $1.2B | ||||
| Columbus McKinnon Corp is a world-wide designer, manufacturer and marketer of intelligent motion solutions for material handling that move the world forward and improve lives by efficiently and ergonomically moving, lifting, positioning and securing materials. Its key products include hoists, crane components, precision conveyor systems, rigging tools, light rail workstations and digital power and motion control systems. These are relevant, professional-grade solutions that solve its customers critical material handling requirements. The company has one operating and reportable segment. It has presence in United State, Germany, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (Excluding Germany), Canada, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. It has majority of sales from United States. | $16 | -1% | $463M | $3.5B | ||||
| Kodiak AI Inc is a provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered autonomous vehicle technology. This technology addresses the needs of the long-haul trucking, industrial trucking, and defense industries. The company's core offering, the Kodiak Driver, is a single-platform virtual driver that combines advanced AI software with modular hardware for customer deployments. All company operations are conducted in the United States. | $2 | -81% | $340M | $460M | ||||
| Richtech Robotics Inc is a robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) technology company focused on developing embodied AI systems that aims to improve the efficiency and productivity of businesses. The company trains proprietary artificial intelligence models on in-house data to operate robotic systems in the real world. It designs, engineers, manufactures, and deploys next generation embodied AI systems to serve a wide range of industries, including food service, retail, industrial manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, and hospitality. The company's offerings include Commercial Robotic Products, Industrial Robotic Products and Data Services. The company generated the majority of its revenue through product revenue (i.e. outright hardware sales). | $1 | -69% | $333M | - | ||||
| Butler National Corp is involved in the design, engineering, manufacturing, selling, integrating, installing, repairing, modifying, overhauling, servicing, and distributing portfolio of aerostructures, aircraft components, avionics, accessories, subassemblies, and systems (Aerospace Products). The group serves the aviation industry, including owners of aircraft and contractors involved with private, commercial, business, and government aircraft operations. It also serves commercial weapon manufacturers and suppliers to governments and their agencies. The company has two operating segments: Professional Services and Aerospace Products. Its main source of revenue comes from the Aerospace Products segment. It operates in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and other geographical regions. | $5 | +91% | $294M | $290M | ||||
| SmartRent Inc is an enterprise smart home and smart building technology platform for property owners, managers and residents. The SmartRent solution is designed to provide property managers with seamless visibility and control over all their assets while delivering cost savings and additional revenue opportunities through all-in-one home control offerings for residents. Geographical, it operates in the United States and International; majority revenue being generated from the United States. | $1 | -12% | $232M | $144M | ||||
| Palladyne AI Corp is a software company focused on autonomy for robotic systems and solutions. Its artificial intelligence and machine learning software seeks to revolutionize the capabilities of robots, enabling them to observe, learn, reason, and act in structured and unstructured environments. AI and ML software platform of the company empowers robots to perceive variations or changes in the real-world environment, enabling them to autonomously maneuver and manipulate objects accurately in response. Palladyne AI software has wide application, including in industries such as automotive, aviation, construction, defense, general manufacturing, infrastructure inspection, logistics and warehousing. | $5 | -44% | $229M | $196M | ||||
| Silvair Inc is a software application service provider. The company creates software for solutions for the Internet of Things. The firm provides Silvair lighting firmware which is a software for intelligent lighting components and provides silvair platform that includes digital tools for launching, configuring, and managing intelligent lighting networks. The company operates in the following segments; Lighting Control, Smart Lighting Services, and Smart Building Management. The majority of its revenue is generated from the Lighting Control segment. Geographically, the company derives maximum revenue from the European Union and the rest from other regions. | IoT+2 | $1 | -63% | $18M | $22M | |||
| Exyn Technologies Inc is a pioneer in fully adaptive, cognitive mission-level autonomous robotics and artificial intelligence, delivering solutions that enable safe, efficient, and scalable autonomy in complex, GPS-denied environments. Its mission is to deliver world-class autonomous robots to data-hungry industries, unlocking new insights that drive smarter decisions. The group is leveraging proprietary Level 4B autonomy software and cutting-edge aerial and ground robotic systems. It empowers industries, including mining, construction, critical infrastructure, and defense, with real-time 3D mapping, data analytics, and autonomous navigation. Its software and hardware include ExynAI, ExynAI SDK, ExynView, Nexys, Accessories, and Platforms. | $2 | -- | $16M | $10M | ||||
| NightFood Holdings Inc operates as a food service and hospitality technology and asset acquisition company. The Company’s activities are focused on the integration of AI-powered service robotics and the ownership and operation of hospitality-related real estate. It is organized into two business segments: Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) expects to develop and provide automation solutions intended to improve efficiency and reduce labor demands in food service and hospitality environments, with an emphasis on tasks that are labor-intensive or repetitive; Hospitality Asset Ownership plans to acquire, own, and operate hotel properties. These assets may also serve as deployment sites for the Company’s automation technologies, where operational efficiencies may be evaluated and implemented. | $0 | -58% | $12M | $44M | ||||
| Focus Universal Inc offers smart devices, IoT products, and patented products and technologies for 5G telecommunications and network security. It is focused on commercializing its universal smart technology and financial reporting software. Its product line includes various digital, analog, and quantum light meters and filtration products, the Ubiquitor universal smart device, SEC Financial Reporting Software, and other smart devices and sensors. The company's reportable segments are Corporate and IoT, which derives maximum revenue, and Perfecular and Lusher. The Corporate and IoT segment includes its LED and IoT installation and management business (under Smart AVX), specializing in LED and display systems, home theaters, lighting control, automation, and integration. | $4 | -98% | $4M | $13M | ||||
| iRobot Corp is a United state based consumer robot company. It designs and builds robots that assist consumers with the solutions for the activities to be carried out both inside and outside of the home. The company's consumer robot comprises a portfolio of solutions which includes cleaning, mapping and navigation, human-robot interaction, and physical solutions. The company operates in the business segment of Consumer robots. The consumer robot products are provided to the consumers by retail businesses and online stores. The company derives its revenue from the product sales. It sells the products across the United States and around the world. | $0 | -98% | $2M | $205M | ||||
| Nauticus Robotics Inc develops fully electric autonomous robotic solutions for subsea applications. The company's business model includes using robotic systems for service, selling vehicles and components, and licensing related software to both the commercial and defense business sectors. The company's addressable markets include upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas, defense, offshore renewables, seafloor telecommunications, aquaculture, port security, oceanographic research, and subsea mining. | $1 | -89% | $2M | $22M | ||||
| Olenox Industries Inc is an industrial holding company focused on acquiring, operating, and scaling businesses that provide engineered solutions across industrial, energy, and infrastructure markets. Through its subsidiaries, it delivers high-quality modular and containerized systems designed for rapid deployment and long-term performance. | $1 | -95% | $1M | $30M | ||||
| Vicarious Surgical Inc designs a surgical robot that enables surgeons to perform minimally invasive surgery with 3D visualization and accurate control. Its Vicarious Surgical Robotic System is designed with a focus on abdominal access and visualization through a single port. The company has following segment: Research and development, Sales and marketing, General and administrative. | $0 | -99% | $325K | $4M | ||||
| Presto Automation Inc overlays next-gen digital solutions onto the physical world. It provides an accurate, next-gen solution that uses artificial intelligence to automate speech recognition for restaurant drive-thru. The Company earns substantially all of its revenue in the United States. | $0 | -- | $42K | $42K | ||||
| Median | $17 | -18% | $620M | $1.2B | 3.5x | 7.4x |
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