More than 2.7 million * industrial robots are in operation around the world * as indispensable equipment for the production of automobiles, home appliances, PCs, smartphones, and other products in factories and other places that are rarely seen in everyday life. Yaskawa announced the Japan’s first all-electric industrial robot under the brand name MOTOMAN in 1977, and since then we have shipped nearly 500,000 units all over the world.
Yaskawa develops and optimizes servomotors which are the main components of industrial robots MOTOMAN by ourselves. Aside from control software technology that maximizes this capability, we are developing industrial robots by integrating application technology that realizes optimum structures and functions for applications such as welding and painting.
Semiconductor wafer transfer robot
The mainstream size of semiconductor silicon wafers is 300mm in semiconductor market, and the transfer process requires high-speed transfer and ultra-high repetition accuracy. At Yaskawa, the pursuit of high accuracy and low vibration resulted in the introduction of a model that uses a direct drive system with a DD motor to meet customer requirements for absolute positioning accuracy of 0.05 mm and repetitive positioning accuracy of ±0.025 mm*. *Environmental conditions are required.