AI Visibility Index: Industrial Automation & Robotics in Illinois

When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a industrial automation & robotics supplier in Illinois, these are the companies that get named. This is what we found when the cell was last measured.

126 companies tracked
Last measured September 30, 2026
Next measurement October 30, 2026

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

113 of 126

companies never appeared in a single buying question

They were asked the same 5 buying questions as everyone else in this cell and were not named once.

13 named at least once
113 never named

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Cell average: 0.21of 15
Across all 126 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 4.1of 15
The ten most visible companies in the cell.

A company's score is how many of the 15 measured answers named it.

The top ten in Illinois

These are the companies AI assistants named most often when Illinois buyers went looking for a supplier in this category.

Top 10 most AI-visible Industrial Automation & Robotics companies in Illinois, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	Ehrhardt Automation Systems Illinois	Illinois	7 of 15 answers
2	Precise Automation, Inc. Illinois	Illinois	6 of 15 answers
3	MAVERICK Technologies 167 employeesColumbia, Illinois 2 name variants MAVERICK Technologiesmost common4 MAVERICK Technologies (Emerson)1	Columbia, Illinois	5 of 15 answers
4	Lion Inc. Illinois	Illinois	5 of 15 answers
5	FANUC America Corporation - Midwest Regional Office 34 employeesHoffman Estates, Illinois 2 name variants FANUC America – Hoffman Estates Regional Officemost common2 FANUC America – Midwest / Hoffman Estates Office1	Hoffman Estates, Illinois	3 of 15 answers
6	Flex-Line Automation Inc 13 employeesChester, Illinois	Chester, Illinois	3 of 15 answers
7	CIC Engineering Illinois	Illinois	3 of 15 answers
8	Fuji Robotics Americas Illinois	Illinois	3 of 15 answers
9	GotBots247 (ICR 24/7 Inc.) Illinois	Illinois	3 of 15 answers
10	Integrion Automation Illinois	Illinois	3 of 15 answers

37 more companies were named at least once. Companies outside the top ten are counted in the averages but not named here.

Also named, based in another state

AI assistants named these companies too, but MacRAE'S lists them in a different state, not Illinois. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
Controllink	Ohio	3 of 15
Rockwell Automation	Minnesota	2 of 15
Versatech	New York	2 of 15
Automation International	Texas	1 of 15
DTS America	Tennessee	1 of 15
Formic	Ohio	1 of 15

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The five questions we asked

Every company in this cell is measured on the same questions, written the way a buyer would type them. That is what makes the ranking a comparison rather than a collection of anecdotes.

1“Best industrial automation and robotics companies in Illinois”
2“Who supplies turnkey robotic palletizing cells in Illinois”
3“I need a Illinois automation partner for a fully automated assembly line upgrade, who should I talk to”
4“Top industrial automation and robotics suppliers in Illinois for manufacturing engineering buyers”
5“Which Illinois industrial automation and robotics integrators can handle multi-robot vision-guided pick-and-place systems”
6“List 20 industrial automation and robotics companies in Illinois with their specialties.”the roster question

Each question is asked more than once, which is why a company's score is out of 15 answers rather than out of the number of questions.

Where AI drew its answers from

These are the sources the answers in this cell leaned on most, ranked by how many of the named companies each one stands behind.

thomasnet.comDirectory
7 companies
en.wikipedia.orgDirectory
3 companies
fanucamerica.com
2 companies
lioninc.us
2 companies
actashusa.com
2 companies
ehrhardtautomation.com
1 company
flex-lineautomation.com
1 company
fujirobotics.com
1 company
versatech1.com
1 company
4dsysco.com
1 company
benten.engineering
1 company
bestpackaging.com
1 company

60 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 52 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

Illinois in context

Illinois ranks 9th of 12 measured states in this category. Each bar is the share of that state's tracked companies that AI assistants named at least once; across every measured state in this category the share is 12%.

Illinois (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (12%)

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