Hardware

Yaskawa Motoman

Yaskawa Motoman is the industrial-robot business of Japan's Yaskawa Electric, one of the world's largest robot manufacturers alongside FANUC, ABB, and KUKA, with an installed base spanning arc welding, handling, assembly, and painting. Its lineup ranges from compact 6-axis arms to dual-arm and gantry systems, controlled by the MOTOMAN controller family, with ROS-Industrial drivers connecting them to research software stacks.

Why it matters for physical AI

Incumbent industrial platforms represent the installed capacity that physical AI must integrate with, and vendor ecosystems like Motoman's define the reliability, safety certification, and uptime bar that learned manipulation has to meet.