Facts

• Company: Yaskawa Electric Corporation
• Product type: Robotic Arm
• Status: Available
• Capability focus: Manipulation

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Articles
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

Motoman Industrial Robots are Yaskawa industrial robot arms for factory automation.

Overview

Motoman Industrial Robots are Yaskawa industrial robot arms for factory automation.

Market context

Motoman is Yaskawa's industrial robot family for welding, handling, assembly, palletizing, painting and other factory automation tasks.

• Target environment: Automotive lines, electronics manufacturing, metal fabrication, packaging cells, machine-tending stations and general factory automation environments.
• Workflow context: Arc welding, spot welding, material handling, assembly, palletizing, painting, machine tending and repeatable production-line manipulation.
• Customer context: Manufacturers, automation integrators and production engineering teams that need mature industrial robot arms with broad model coverage and support.
• Deployment model: Commercial industrial robot line sold through Yaskawa's global robotics and motion-control channels with many model families and configurations.
• Commercial maturity: Mature commercial platform family with long-running deployment across industrial manufacturing sectors.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on payload and reach fit, tooling, safety cell design, controller integration, programming support, maintenance capability and factory-line economics.
• Market position: Core industrial robot-arm platform comparable to Fanuc, ABB, Kawasaki, KUKA and other established factory robot families rather than a single-purpose service robot.
• Adjacent products: Fanuc industrial robots, ABB IRB robots, KUKA KR series, Kawasaki Robotics industrial arms

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Arc welding, spot welding, material handling, assembly, palletizing, painting, machine tending and repeatable production-line manipulation.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Automotive lines, electronics manufacturing, metal fabrication, packaging cells, machine-tending stations and general factory automation environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Arc welding, spot welding, material handling, assembly, palletizing, painting, machine tending and repeatable production-line manipulation.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Automotive lines, electronics manufacturing, metal fabrication, packaging cells, machine-tending stations and general factory automation environments.

Specifications

• Form Type: Industrial robot arm family
• Operational Role: Welding, material handling, assembly, packaging and machine tending

Articles

• 2023-11-29 - Article - Yaskawa is building MOTOMAN NEXT into adaptive robot cells

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Planned Robot Manufacturing Facility Count - 1 planned Wisconsin robot manufacturing facility - 2025-07-01 - Franklin robotics manufacturing facility - industrial robot manufacturing - Yaskawa America announced plans fo…