Yaskawa Electric Corporation

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A century-old Japanese industrial-controls company, a major maker of servo motors and MOTOMAN industrial robots.

Yaskawa Electric was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan; it is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a Nikkei 225 constituent. Its core businesses are servo motors, motion controllers, inverters, and the MOTOMAN line of industrial robots, a common sight on welding, handling, and assembly lines, and it is counted with FANUC, ABB, and KUKA as one of the “Big Four” of industrial robotics. In 1969 it trademarked the term “Mechatronics,” which later became a generic industry term. In embodied AI, Yaskawa represents the traditional industrial-robotics path: taught-and-programmed motion, high precision, and high reliability. According to reports, in July 2026 Yaskawa joined FANUC and Kawasaki Heavy Industries in a Fujitsu-led project to build an NVIDIA-based physical-AI coordination platform for factories, hospitals, and homes.

ExampleRows of MOTOMAN welding robots on an automotive body shop's line repeat a taught trajectory over and over.

Also called: Yaskawa
Related: Big Four of Industrial Robotics · Industrial Robot · FANUC · KUKA · Servo Motor
Sources: Yaskawa Electric Corporation - Wikipedia
As of: 2026-07