West Japan Railway Company (JR West)
Osaka-based Japanese railway operator that uses multi-function rail heavy machines with robot arms for track-side maintenance.
Headquartered in Osaka, Japan, founded in 1987.
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West Japan Railway Company (JR West) is a railway operator headquartered in Osaka, founded in April 1987 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime market. In July 2024 it introduced ZIZAI, a multi-function railway heavy machine with a humanoid upper body on a boom, for maintenance work on its lines, and in October 2026 it said it would add a heavy-work single-arm robot and a mass-production humanoid model.
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- Japan
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