Abstract: A method for polarity recognition of electronic components, and an arrangement for carrying out the method are presented. An application for the invention is in the automatic assembling of circuitboards by robots, wherein components present in the form of bulk material must be placed in order. If the polarity of the components is not evident from their exterior structural conventional mechanical ordering methods are not applicable. According to the invention, for components in which a terminal is connected with the electrically insulted foil electrode (2), the currents which, when a-c voltages are applied to the terminals (3, 4) of the component (1), flow capacitively across the outer foil (2) to a probe (6) are evaluated as signal for the polarity of the component (1). In an arrangement for carrying out this method, which comprises a circuit for the generation of mutually phase-shifted a-c voltages (u.sub.1, u.sub.