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ROBOTNESS has published 27 stories about Yaskawa Electric since Jan 6, 2026; the latest is from Oct 1, 2026.

Data as of Oct 1, 2026. Included: company announcements, regulator filings and reported rounds; estimates and sample rows are excluded, and undisclosed amounts are never estimated.

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Jan 6, 2026

Latest story

Oct 1, 2026

Stories about Yaskawa Electric

Who supplies humanoid robot joints? Japan's Harmonic Drive and Nabtesco, China's Leaderdrive and Germany's Schaeffler lead, while Tesla and Figure build their own
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Industry
Paris-based Inbolt raises $12.5 million to take its AI robot vision from car plants to data centres
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Funding
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Market
Hitachi and FANUC pair edge AI chips with industrial robots, aiming for a global physical AI rollout from fiscal 2027
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Partnership
Direct Drive Tech and Camsense raise HK$1.76 billion in back-to-back Hong Kong listings, putting the parts inside cheap robots on the market
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Funding
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Funding
D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers
Date
Sep 17, 2026
Type
Funding
Fujitsu enlists FANUC, Yaskawa and Kawasaki to build a sovereign physical AI platform on NVIDIA technology
Date
Jul 16, 2026
Type
Partnership
Yaskawa puts Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 inside MOTOMAN NEXT to build an agentic industrial robot
Date
Jul 15, 2026
Type
Partnership
Yaskawa targets record ¥100 billion operating profit by 2029, betting on physical AI and humanoid actuators after missing its last plan
Date
May 22, 2026
Type
Business
Kawasaki opens a physical AI centre in San Jose with NVIDIA, Microsoft, Analog Devices and Fujitsu, starting with hospital robots
Date
May 22, 2026
Type
Partnership
FANUC opens its robots to Google's Intrinsic and Gemini and deepens NVIDIA ties in a two-day physical AI push
Date
May 15, 2026
Type
Partnership
FANUC posts record ¥857.8 billion sales as robot revenue rises 15% and China orders jump 55% in the final quarter
Date
Apr 24, 2026
Type
Business
Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows
Date
Apr 22, 2026
Type
Research
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data
Date
Apr 15, 2026
Type
Research
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data
Date
Apr 2, 2026
Type
Research
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million
Date
Mar 31, 2026
Type
Business
Japan approves AI robotics strategy targeting a 30% global share and 20 trillion yen market by 2040
Date
Mar 26, 2026
Type
Policy
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move
Date
Mar 16, 2026
Type
Product
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
Funding
EU clears SoftBank's $5.4 billion ABB Robotics deal, a price of 17 times EBITDA to give its robot AI a body
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
M&A
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre
Date
Feb 27, 2026
Type
Business
LimX Dynamics raises $200 million Series B as JD and SAIC-backed capital bet on its robot operating system
Date
Feb 2, 2026
Type
Funding
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code
Date
Jan 27, 2026
Type
Research
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive
Date
Jan 6, 2026
Type
M&A

Headline	Date	Type
Who supplies humanoid robot joints? Japan's Harmonic Drive and Nabtesco, China's Leaderdrive and Germany's Schaeffler lead, while Tesla and Figure build their own	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?	Oct 1, 2026	Industry
Paris-based Inbolt raises $12.5 million to take its AI robot vision from car plants to data centres	Sep 30, 2026	Funding
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says	Sep 30, 2026	Market
Hitachi and FANUC pair edge AI chips with industrial robots, aiming for a global physical AI rollout from fiscal 2027	Sep 30, 2026	Partnership
Direct Drive Tech and Camsense raise HK$1.76 billion in back-to-back Hong Kong listings, putting the parts inside cheap robots on the market	Sep 30, 2026	Funding
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act	Sep 29, 2026	Funding
D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers	Sep 17, 2026	Funding
Fujitsu enlists FANUC, Yaskawa and Kawasaki to build a sovereign physical AI platform on NVIDIA technology	Jul 16, 2026	Partnership
Yaskawa puts Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 inside MOTOMAN NEXT to build an agentic industrial robot	Jul 15, 2026	Partnership
Yaskawa targets record ¥100 billion operating profit by 2029, betting on physical AI and humanoid actuators after missing its last plan	May 22, 2026	Business
Kawasaki opens a physical AI centre in San Jose with NVIDIA, Microsoft, Analog Devices and Fujitsu, starting with hospital robots	May 22, 2026	Partnership
FANUC opens its robots to Google's Intrinsic and Gemini and deepens NVIDIA ties in a two-day physical AI push	May 15, 2026	Partnership
FANUC posts record ¥857.8 billion sales as robot revenue rises 15% and China orders jump 55% in the final quarter	Apr 24, 2026	Business
Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows	Apr 22, 2026	Research
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data	Apr 15, 2026	Research
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data	Apr 2, 2026	Research
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million	Mar 31, 2026	Business
Japan approves AI robotics strategy targeting a 30% global share and 20 trillion yen market by 2040	Mar 26, 2026	Policy
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move	Mar 16, 2026	Product
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake	Mar 11, 2026	Funding
EU clears SoftBank's $5.4 billion ABB Robotics deal, a price of 17 times EBITDA to give its robot AI a body	Mar 11, 2026	M&A
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre	Feb 27, 2026	Business
LimX Dynamics raises $200 million Series B as JD and SAIC-backed capital bet on its robot operating system	Feb 2, 2026	Funding
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code	Jan 27, 2026	Research
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive	Jan 6, 2026	M&A

Data as of Oct 1, 2026

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