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Series B

Rapyuta Robotics

Cloud robotics platform for warehouse automation and material handling

Deployed with major Japanese operators; cloud robotics technology doubles warehouse picking productivity

📦 Logistics & Warehouse🚗 Autonomous Vehicles
📍 Unknown, Japan · Est. 2014Website →
Series A

RoboSapiens Inc.

Industrial and service robots designed to integrate into people's daily lives and improve quality of living.

End-to-end robotics developer with media presence, building robots for both industrial and daily-life applications

🤖 Service Robots⚙️ Industrial Robots
📍 Unknown, JapanWebsite →
Series B

Preferred Robotics

Self-controlled robotics using machine learning and deep learning technologies.

Subsidiary of Preferred Networks, leveraging deep learning for autonomous robotics with both Japan and US operations

🧠 AI & Robot Learning🚗 Autonomous Vehicles

Backed by: Preferred Networks

📍 Tokyo, Japan · Est. 2021Website →
Seed 🌱200M yen

MoveEz

AI robotics startup developing autonomous robot taxi technology.

Secured 200M yen seed funding for autonomous robot taxi with proven autonomous driving track record

🚗 Autonomous Vehicles

Backed by: Partners Fund Inc.

📍 Kanazawa, JapanWebsite →
🤝 AcquiredSubsidiary of SoftBank Group

SoftBank Robotics

Pepper + NAO — 20,000+ social robots deployed worldwide

NAO used in 70+ countries for research — 10,000+ units in universities worldwide

🤖 Service Robots🧑‍🤖 Humanoid Robots

Backed by: SoftBank Group

📍 Tokyo, Japan · Est. 2012Website →