Asia
🇯🇵 Japan Robotics
Industrial arm incumbents; slower humanoid capital formation.
Companies
20
Total funding
$60.5M
Funding, 12 months
$0
Robots tracked
0
M&A
0
Top companies
| Company | Sector | Stage | Total funding | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rapyuta Robotics | — | Growth | $60.5M | $60.5M |
| CYBERDYNE | — | Public | — | |
| FANUC | Industrial Robot | Public | — | |
| Fujitsu | — | Public | — | |
| Harmonic Drive Systems | — | Public | — | |
| Highlanders | — | — | — | |
| Hitachi | — | Public | — | |
| Kawada Robotics | — | Subsidiary | — | |
| Kawasaki Heavy Industries | — | Public | — | |
| Mujin | — | Growth | — |
Companies in Japan
Recent funding
- Qibitech · Series B—
- Mujin · Series D (first close) · led by NTT Group—
- Preferred Networks · Extension round (additional investors)—
- ugo · Third party allotment (undisclosed amount)—
- Preferred Networks · Extension round—
- Preferred Networks · Equity and debt financing (first close) · led by SBI Group—
- Rapyuta Robotics · Strategic investment · led by Togin Lease—
- Rapyuta Robotics · Strategic investment · led by Link and Motivation—
M&A
None on record.
News
- Highlanders shows a production prototype of its humanoid N at CEATEC as it readies 2027 shipments with Mitsubishi Motors
- Inside Unitree Robotics, where humanoids now outsell robot dogs but nearly three-quarters go to labs and classrooms
- Who supplies humanoid robot joints? Japan's Harmonic Drive and Nabtesco, China's Leaderdrive and Germany's Schaeffler lead, while Tesla and Figure build their own
- Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains
- What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
- US Army names IHMC's Alex humanoid and four component makers as xTechHumanoid winners
- Gradient leads US$7.6 million round for Feather, which sells a US$29,990 two-armed robot and lets buyers pick the brain
- Paris-based Inbolt raises $12.5 million to take its AI robot vision from car plants to data centres
- Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says
- Hitachi and FANUC pair edge AI chips with industrial robots, aiming for a global physical AI rollout from fiscal 2027