Tokyo Robotics

• Torobo
• Torobo Hand

Supply chain relationships

• NVIDIA

  Inbound - Compute & Control - Tokyo Robotics specifies an optional onboard NVIDIA RTX 4070 PC for Torobo, which is under development

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• 2021-12-16 - Seed - Tokyo Robotics raises JPY 200 million through an Igarashi alliance

  The third-party allotment brought Tokyo Robotics’ cumulative financing to JPY 400 million and supported further robot-product development. - source: prtimes.jp

• 2020-01-21 - Strategic partnership - Tokyo Robotics signs investment and technology partnership with Yamaha Motor

  source: global.yamaha-motor.com

• Igarashi Electric Works - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-12-16
• Yamaha Motor - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-01-21

• Yoshihiro Sakamoto - Founder and Chief Executive Officer

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 walking workflows tied to Isaac Sim and MuJoCo, indicating the prototype is being developed through simulation-trained control rather than only scripted motion. In the company's announcement, Tokyo Robotics said it is currently developing a full-body humanoid and plans to improve hardware and software stability while adding autonomous task AI.

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• 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 applications such as maintenance work on high-voltage power lines. The release framed the offer as a deployable solutions capability, not just an internal research demonstration.

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• 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 requiring human-like upper-body manipulation. The launch expanded the company's core humanoid and hand platforms rather than introducing a one-off demo unit.

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• 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 of intellectual-property strategy to support industrial partnerships and solution expansion. The award added a durable recognition milestone beyond product demos and customer pilots.

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• 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 exchange among the available operating options.

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• 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 October 2023 and would verify the effectiveness of telepresence robots for tasks such as checking server equipment in operating data centers. The announcement described it as the world's first demonstration of operation and maintenance work on IT equipment in commercial data centers using real-time remote-control robots.

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• 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 development, customer acquisition and hiring, including its Mobile Gripper line.

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• 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 scale and coverage of its industrial robotics business. The transaction was positioned as both capital support and a technology collaboration rather than a standalone financial raise.

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Relationships

• E-MARK

  Deployment Partner - E-MARK named in NTT Communications data center maintenance robot demonstration cluster.

• Igarashi Electric Works

  Capital And Motor Development Alliance - Igarashi Electric Works invested JPY 200 million in Tokyo Robotics through a third-party allotment and capital and business alliance.

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  stack adjacency - Whole Body Control

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  stack adjacency - Whole Body Control

• Dexmate

  stack adjacency - Mobile Manipulation Robotics · Dexterous Manipulation

• DexForce

  stack adjacency - Mobile Manipulation Robotics · Dexterous Manipulation

• Reflex Robotics

  stack adjacency - Mobile Manipulation Robotics · Dexterous Manipulation

• SynTouch

  stack adjacency - Dexterous Manipulation · Force Contact Interaction

• Contactile

  stack adjacency - Dexterous Manipulation · Force Contact Interaction

• Anyware Robotics

  stack adjacency - Mobile Manipulation Robotics · Dexterous Manipulation

• Nori Robotics

  stack adjacency - Mobile Manipulation Robotics

Shared workflows

• Rotaku

  workflow adjacency - Humanoid Development Platform

• isento GmbH

  workflow adjacency - Humanoid Development Platform

• Knowin (诺因智能)

  workflow adjacency - Bimanual Mobile Manipulation

• OS3

  workflow adjacency - Bimanual Mobile Manipulation

• Synthoid

  workflow adjacency - Bimanual Mobile Manipulation

• AGIRobots

  workflow adjacency - Humanoid Development Platform

• Collaborative Robotics

  workflow adjacency - Bimanual Mobile Manipulation

• SI Robotics

  workflow adjacency - Bimanual Mobile Manipulation

• Maven Robotics

  workflow adjacency - Bimanual Mobile Manipulation

Context tags

• Wheeled Humanoid Mobile Manipulator Builder - Peer Group - Torobo is a human-scale humanoid with dual seven-axis arms and an omnidirectional mobile base, built for contact-rich automation and applied machine-learning research.
• Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Tokyo Robotics develops complete Torobo humanoid robot systems.
• Humanoid development platform - Workflow - Torobo is positioned as a humanoid robot platform for machine learning research and R&D.
• Robotics research and education - Customer Environment - Torobo is positioned for machine learning research and robotics R&D.
• Force and contact interaction - Capability - Tokyo Robotics says Torobo can be used for tasks involving active contact with objects or the environment.
• Bimanual mobile manipulation - Workflow - Torobo supports manipulation/contact tasks with human-scale arms and mobile cart form.
• Whole-body control - Capability - Torobo software supports impedance control, ZMP fall prevention and whole-body humanoid control features.
• Dexterous manipulation - Capability - Torobo is designed for tasks involving active contact with objects or the environment.
• Mobile manipulation robotics - Stack Layer - Torobo is a human-scale robot on a cart base for active contact and manipulation tasks.
• Pilot deployments - Commercial Stage - Torobo is a research/development platform; commercial deployment should remain conservative.