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Industrial robots, precision components, factory automation and the labor economics driving adoption. This page covers Japan.
The motion specialist focuses on modular strain wave units as parent firm Harmonic Drive Systems projects ¥68.0 billion in annual revenue while cobot makers accelerate factory deployments.
The Japanese automation maker paired generative AI programming with washdown delta robots ahead of trade demonstrations in…
The 0.5-kilogram payload manipulator addresses semiconductor packaging space constraints as half-year group revenues reach 285.6…
The Japanese automation maker lifted full-year revenue guidance to 600 billion yen as motion control orders jumped 38% across…
The Japanese industrial giants will combine HMAX Industry software with autonomous robot arms, scheduling global commercial…
The JOHB-NSC3-MA option card integrates Ethernet-based CIP Safety protocols across four inverter lines to reduce hardwiring in…
The motion specialist targets humanoid and cobot makers with gear-motor units as its parent company projects ¥68.0 billion in…
The four-legged machine navigates vertical hull plates using abdominal magnets to automate hazardous welding and inspection at…
The showcase pairs an IP69K-rated delta robot with SCARA sorting and generative AI code generation, targeting food processing and…
The lineup introduces an 11-kilogram collaborative welding arm alongside multi-robot coordinated systems designed to ease…
The partnership integrates Hitachi's HMAX Industry platform and custom edge chips into FANUC robots, targeting commercial…
The Japanese electronics group is directing cylindrical cell research and factory AI toward bipedal machines, while confirming no…
The machinery maker plans to integrate domestic AI platform Noetra into its 30-kilogram payload Kaleido model, accelerating…
The CRX-3iA joins a wave of portable arms entering heavy fabrication, following HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' deployment of 35…
The partnership pairs HMAX Industry software with industrial robots across Hitachi plants before commercial deployment to…
The Japanese automation leaders are committing over $270 million to new Michigan and Wisconsin campuses as North American…
The 30-kilogram payload cells eliminate safety fences in logistics and food packaging lines while offering operational payback…
Tokyo coordinates with DMG Mori and Komatsu to assign unified IDs across 1,600 tools, targeting 100 terabytes of shop data to…
A 20.5 billion yen state project aims to replace Chinese hardware with domestic dual-arm manipulators and compile one million…
The partnership validates an on-premises wireless architecture achieving 5.6-millisecond latency and 700 Mbps throughput across…
The multi-stage initiative embeds real-time motion planning software across industrial articulated arms, addressing variable…
The Japanese automation giant demonstrated autonomous mobile cobots and generative vision models in Chicago to eliminate rigid…
The system eliminates manual teaching by turning 2D and 3D schematics into robot motion, with commercial shipments planned for…
The partnership integrates the Palladyne IQ platform into industrial manipulators to give production lines closed-loop autonomy…