Yaskawa invests in start-ups worldwide

Strategic expansion

06.03.2018, 10:24

Yaskawa invests in start-ups worldwide

As part of the "Vision 2025" strategy, Yaskawa is currently concluding agreements with start-up companies around the world relating to the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI).

The headquarters of Yaskawa Europe in Eschborn. (Image: Yaskawa)

The aim of this cooperation is to jointly achieve synergy effects and to expand the existing main business areas of robotics, motion control and power conversion in a sensible and future-oriented manner. To this end, the company has invested around two billion yen (14.85 million euros) worldwide over the last three financial years.

The program focuses on the areas of mechatronics, clean power and humatronics, in which Yaskawa wants to generate new value for the development of society together with start-up companies worldwide. The European headquarters is also actively looking for suitable start-ups as part of this program.

The Japanese parent company's most recent international investments include Locix, a US provider of radio-based sensor platforms, the Finnish company Teraloop for large-scale storage of kinetic energy, as well as the Japanese companies XCompass, a start-up focused on artificial intelligence, Flosfia, a specialist in gallium oxide power semiconductors, Fomm, a producer of small electric vehicles for short distances, and Picocela, which implements networking technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT). There are also long-standing collaborations with exoskeleton pioneer Rewalk Robotics, electric vehicle venture GLM and Robotic Biology Institute, a technology company for laboratory automation. as

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