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Yaskawa Motoman Industrial Robots

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About Yaskawa Motoman Industrial Robots

Yaskawa’s Motoman industrial portfolio spans general-purpose handling, arc welding, spot welding, palletising, high-speed picking, painting and collaborative automation. Payload and reach vary from compact assembly arms to heavy robots for vehicle bodies, castings and large pallet loads, allowing the platform family to cover both individual cells and complete production lines.

YRC controllers coordinate robot motion, positioners, conveyors and process equipment, while Smart Pendant and conventional programming interfaces support commissioning. MotoSim models robot cells and cycle times before installation. Yaskawa supplies arms, controllers, application packages and global service through integrators and its own automation organisation.

29 NOV 2023

Yaskawa is building MOTOMAN NEXT into adaptive robot cells

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Workflows: Arc welding, spot welding, material handling, assembly, palletizing, painting, machine tending and repeatable production-line manipulation.
  • Operating environments: Automotive lines, electronics manufacturing, metal fabrication, packaging cells, machine-tending stations and general factory automation environments.
  • Target markets: 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.
  • Robotic welding

    Claimed - Yaskawa presents Motoman robots for welding, assembly, material handling, palletizing and machine tending.

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  • Robotic assembly

    Claimed - Yaskawa presents Motoman robots for welding, assembly, material handling, palletizing and machine tending.

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  • Material handling

    Claimed - Yaskawa presents Motoman robots for welding, assembly, material handling, palletizing and machine tending.

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  • Palletizing

    Claimed - Yaskawa presents Motoman robots for welding, assembly, material handling, palletizing and machine tending.

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  • Machine tending

    Claimed - Yaskawa presents Motoman robots for welding, assembly, material handling, palletizing and machine tending.

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Operations

  • Facility

    1 planned Wisconsin robot manufacturing facility - 2025-07-01 - Franklin robotics manufacturing facility - industrial robot manufacturing - Yaskawa America announced plans for a Franklin, Wisconsin robot manufacturing facility to begin U.S. manufacturing of high-volume industrial robots.

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Resources

Media library

Official Yaskawa Motoman industrial-robot model finder, interactive catalogue and service-document library with portfolio imagery.

Context

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

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