FANUC UK restructures sales leadership to target aerospace and defense
The Japanese robotics maker's British unit named a dedicated account manager for aerospace on Sept. 3 as defense orders outpace automotive tooling.
Robotics & Automation — Japan
RSSIndustrial robots, precision components, factory automation and the labor economics driving adoption. This page covers Japan.
Japan robot makers target logging and biology labs as domestic workforce shrinks
Nippon Signal and Yaskawa Electric are deploying specialized dual-arm automatons to tackle severe labor shortages across railway…
FANUC widens CRX cobot palletizing to 40 kg as food plants automate heavy cases
A high-flow pneumatic upgrade pushes the CRX-30iA into washdown packaging lines, lifting collaborative capacity as the hygienic…
Japanese makers deploy thermal-shielded automated forklifts for cold storage
Toyota Industries and Mitsubishi Logisnext engineer heated sensors and sealed powertrains to eliminate condensation and battery…
Japan Motion Control Makers Accelerate Real-Time Ethernet on Next-Gen Servos
Mitsubishi, Yaskawa, and Omron integrate microsecond-level TSN and multi-protocol architectures to eliminate latency in complex…
Japan Linear Guide Makers Expand Ultra-Clean Units for 2nm Fab Robotics
THK, NSK, and IKO scale maintenance-free motion hardware and zero-outgassing stages as sub-3nm semiconductor fabs require…
Japan vision makers deploy polarized image sensors for carbon fiber testing
High-speed CMOS polarization sensors with on-chip nanowire grids enable single-shot defect detection on automated aerospace and…
Daifuku expands cleanroom transport backlogs as Asian chipmakers accelerate fab builds
Surging orders for overhead hoist transport systems across Japanese, Taiwanese, and South Korean wafer fabs lift cleanroom…
Nabtesco adapts cycloidal gearboxes for heavy logistics robots
Japanese precision reducer leader shifts industrial robot joint drives into heavy-payload autonomous mobile platforms and pallet…
Keyence deploys edge vision sensors for battery inline inspection
The Osaka automation supplier integrates on-chip classification engines into machine vision hardware to eliminate processing…
Harmonic Drive expands Japanese reducer capacity for humanoid robotics demand
Capital expenditure at the Hotaka plant targets high-torque strain wave gears to clear joint actuator bottlenecks across…
Fanuc and Yaskawa Expand China Motion Control Plants to Meet Local Content Rules
Japanese automation leaders localize servo motor and drive assembly in Jiangsu and Shanghai while retaining proprietary encoder…