Yazaki Corporation
About
About Yazaki Corporation
Yazaki manufactures vehicle electrical distribution and connectivity systems, including wire harnesses, connectors, junction boxes, sensors, meters and power-management components. These products carry power and signals through cars, commercial vehicles and electrified platforms, forming part of the hardware foundation used by automated and connected vehicles.
The group combines component design, tooling and high-volume manufacturing across 46 countries, with more than 218,000 employees. It works directly with vehicle manufacturers on model-specific electrical architectures and supplies production and aftermarket programmes. Yazaki's robotics relevance lies in automotive power, sensing and wiring infrastructure rather than complete autonomous machines.
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Airion
Inbound - Software - Airion supplies Physical AI Studio software for Yazaki wire-harness manufacturing use-case development
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Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-24 - Partnership - Yazaki and Airion announce Physical AI Studio work for wire-harness manufacturing
Airion engineers will support initial use-case design and technical validation with Yazaki. The no-code platform combines hardware configuration, AI-model selection, data collection and labelling, and robot control. The longer-term goal is for Yazaki staff to run data collection, model evaluation, robot implementation and improvement cycles themselves.
Source - 2026-09-10 - Partnership - Cuebus, Yazaki and Yamazen announce humanoid manufacturing trial
The trial is scheduled to begin September 21 at Yazaki’s new Innovation Hub. Parts discharged automatically by the CUEBUS system will be handed to a humanoid for transfer into downstream production processes. The Sept. 10 announcement establishes a planned validation programme, not an already operating deployment.
Source - 2026-07-16 - Deployment - DeepHow and Yazaki deploy Time and Motion AI across production lines
The rollout begins with Yazaki North America operations in Mexico and targets line-analysis work that previously took weeks. DeepHow uses vision-language models, NVIDIA Metropolis video search and summarization, and RTX PRO Servers to classify workflow segments and cycle times. The deployment is intended to support operator and station comparisons, standard-work analysis, line balancing and earlier bottleneck detection.
Source - 2026-07-15 - Facility Opening - Yazaki opens Innovation Hub REN for physical-AI manufacturing
The hub is designed to validate automation before transfer into operating production sites. Initial work includes humanoid manufacturing tasks and remote worker support.
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Relations
Relationships
- Airion
Announced Development Programme - Yazaki and Airion plan to use Physical AI Studio to develop and validate wire-harness manufacturing automation.
- Cuebus
Technology Partner - Cuebus and Yazaki are preparing a manufacturing trial linking automated storage with humanoid material transfer.
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Shared workflows
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Context tags
- Automotive Component Manufacturer - Stack Layer - Company profile and first-party sources support this operating context.
- Robotics manufacturing infrastructure - Stack Layer - Company profile and first-party sources support this operating context.
- Automotive humanoid manufacturing - Workflow - Company profile and first-party sources support this operating context.