Tokyo Robotics Timeline

Events

• 2026-04-02 - Demonstration - Tokyo Robotics unveils bipedal humanoid prototype with RL-based walking and whole-body teleoperation - Tokyo Robotics published a new demonstration showing a full-body humanoid prototype performing human-like walking, push recovery, and real-time whole-body teleoperation. The company's latest humanoid materials also show reinforcement-learning-based bipedal… - source: twitter.com
• 2024-07-02 - Capability - Tokyo Robotics starts offering remote-control robot solutions for hazardous maintenance work - Tokyo Robotics announced the start of a remote-control robot solution business built on its dual-arm robot and mobile manipulator technologies. The company said it would customize robots and teleoperation devices to customer requirements and highlighted… - source: prtimes.jp
• 2024-06-10 - Product Launch - Tokyo Robotics launches new models of Torobo and Torobo Hand - Tokyo Robotics announced new versions of its force-controllable full-body humanoid robot Torobo and its multi-finger Torobo Hand. The company said the new models were aimed at research on robot motion generation linked with AI and at industrial work… - source: prtimes.jp
• 2024-02-19 - Award - Tokyo Robotics wins the grand prize in the startup category at the 5th IP BASE AWARD - Tokyo Robotics was named the grand prize winner in the startup category at the 5th IP BASE AWARD run by Japan's patent-office startup IP initiative. The accompanying interview highlighted the company's force-control-capable humanoid robotics work and its use… - source: ipbase.go.jp
• 2024-02-13 - Product Launch - Tokyo Robotics introduces Torobo GTC for warehouse picking - The initial offering focused on boxes such as shoe boxes and provided configurations reaching shelves about 2.6 or 3.9 metres high. Tokyo Robotics quoted throughput of around 60 pieces per hour per robot, with existing shelving, batch sorting and battery… - source: prtimes.jp
• 2023-09-26 - Demonstration - Tokyo Robotics joins NTT Communications-led data center maintenance robot demonstration - NTT Communications, Tokyo Robotics, NHN Techorus, and E-MARK announced a demonstration for IT equipment operation and maintenance work in commercial data-center environments using real-time remote-control robots. The release said the trial would start in… - source: ntt.com
• 2021-12-16 - Funding - Tokyo Robotics raises JPY 200 million through an Igarashi alliance - The companies had already collaborated on motor manufacturing, design know-how and joint performance tests before formalising their capital and business alliance. Tokyo Robotics still described the financing as seed-stage and planned to use it for product… - source: prtimes.jp
• 2020-01-21 - Funding - Tokyo Robotics signs investment and technology partnership with Yamaha Motor - Yamaha Motor said it signed a contract to become a convertible bondholder of Tokyo Robotics and to provide both investment and technology support. The announcement said Yamaha aimed to build on Tokyo Robotics' strengths in collaborative robots to expand the… - source: global.yamaha-motor.com