Murata

Market context

Murata is an upstream electronics and sensing supplier rather than a robot builder. Its sensors and IMUs support the perception, localization, obstacle detection and stability layers.

Products

• SCL3300-D01 Inclinometer

Facts

• Website: https://www.murata.com
• HQ: Nagaokakyo, Japan
• Founded: 1944
• Segment: robotics sensors

Sensor and electronics supplier for robot perception and motion awareness

Murata supplies electronic components and sensors used in embedded systems, autonomous machines and robot-adjacent products.

• Target environment: Robot vacuums, mobile robots, industrial machines, autonomous systems, automotive systems and embedded devices.
• Deployment model: Component supply model for OEMs and electronics designers.
• Customer context: Robot builders, autonomous-machine developers, automotive suppliers, industrial OEMs and consumer device makers.
• Workflow context: Obstacle detection, object detection, inertial sensing, orientation tracking, safety-critical movement monitoring.
• Commercial maturity: Large public electronic components manufacturer with mature sensor, module and component product lines.
• Market position: Murata sits in the upstream sensing and electronics layer below robot OEMs.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on sensor accuracy, size, cost, environmental robustness, integration support, supply availability.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes mobile robotics and autonomous systems.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2025-12-12 - Product Launch - Murata launches SCH16T-K20 high-precision 6-axis IMU for robotics and camera systems - Murata launched SCH16T-K20, a high-precision 6-axis IMU for demanding industrial measurement applications. The sensor targets OEMs in robotics, drones and camera systems. The IMU adds a new low-noise accelerometer MEMS, improved gyroscope temperature stabilit…

Context tags

• Electronic Component Supplier - Peer Group
• Robotics Sensors - Stack Layer
• Inertial Measurement Units - Stack Layer
• Ultrasonic Obstacle Detection - Capability
• Autonomous System Sensing - Workflow
• Robot Vacuum Components - Customer Environment

Articles

• Murata Machinery is building Double Reach Shuttle into North American ASRS - 2025-02-05 - A February 5, 2025 Double Reach Shuttle product record and March 2025 Cimcorp partnership place Murata Machinery around dense goods-to-person ASRS.