Yaskawa Electric

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1. Oct 12
   Yaskawa Electric posts record quarterly orders on AI demand, lifts profit forecast

   Japanese robotics and servo-motor maker Yaskawa Electric reported on Oct. 9 that its overall order intake for the June–August 2026 quarter jumped 38% year over year to ¥185.4 billion, the fifth straight quarterly increase and a record high for any quarter, citing expanding AI and semiconductor-related demand. Motion-control orders surged 56% to ¥91.1 billion and robotics orders rose 33% to ¥776.6 billion, with orders up 60% in the Americas, 53% in Asia excluding China, 36% in Europe, 35% in China and 18% in Japan. The company raised its fiscal 2026 (March 2026–February 2027) consolidated net profit forecast to ¥47.5 billion from ¥47.0 billion, up 34.8% year over year, and its revenue target to ¥600 billion from ¥580 billion, up 10.7%. It cut its operating profit forecast to ¥57.5 billion from ¥600 billion yen-level guidance of ¥60 billion, up 21.5%, citing a core-system migration that affected production and shipments. Chairman and President Hiroshi Ogasawara said order growth exceeded expectations and that production would be accelerated from the second half through next year to improve profitability.

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2. Oct 10
   Physical AI's hype vs. reality: inside Yaskawa's data-driven robot factory

   A Nikkei Chinese column visits Yaskawa Electric's new factory, opened in July at its Kitakyushu head-office campus in Kurosaki, describing it as possibly Japan's first true "physical AI" factory: it runs with roughly half the workers of a conventional plant and, instead of a conveyor line, uses AI-equipped robots working in cell-sized (about 7.29 sq m) stations to assemble high-performance motors and robots, with robots able to detect errors and rework on their own and unmanned operation seen as a future possibility. The article says the key is linking robots to factory information systems to continuously collect production data — a "data factory" that makes the AI smarter. Chairman and president Hiroshi Ogasawara is skeptical of near-term rollouts, citing two obstacles: robotic hands (human fingers have 27 bones and 37 muscles, with sensor and actuator costs still limiting) and data consolidation — deduplication and unified identifiers across departments and factories took Yaskawa eight years, originally to compete with Chinese manufacturers' costs rather than for AI.

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