Overview
Yamaha Motor (TSE: 7272) is a Japanese motorcycle and marine engine manufacturer producing motorcycles, outboard motors, and industrial robots. Yamaha Robotics division produces surface mount robots and industrial automation equipment. Developing autonomous marine systems.
Reality check
Industrial robots (company-claimed)
Linear conveyors, SCARA, Cartesian and single-axis robots, a seven-axis cobot, vision and grippers.
Applications (company-claimed)
Conveyance, supply, assembly and inspection, plus surface-mount and chip equipment.
Robonity (company-claimed)
Single-axis robots with payloads up to 60 kg and strokes up to 4,000 mm.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Stage
Company type
Robotics
Autonomy
Data & sources
Web sources
4
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Yamaha Motor has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1eve autonomy1× joint
- 2Tier IV1× joint6 total
Most recent
- TIER IV x Yamaha Motor (eve autonomy JV)2020-01-01with Tier IVoperating
Yamaha Motor on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Motofumi Shitara Presidentsecondary-verified
Media (1)
Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.
Safety record
No incidents on record for Yamaha Motor.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Yamaha Motor in third-party press
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- AgiBot6 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
Mentioned on (5)
Registry pages whose text names Yamaha Motor.
Companies (3)
Robots and products (1)
People (1)
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company Yamaha Motor has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- TIER IV x Yamaha Motor (eve autonomy JV)2020-01-01with Tier IVoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1eve autonomy1× joint
- 2Tier IV1× joint6 total
All 1 partnerships
open in the atlas →- joint venture2020-01-01operating
Timeline
Every recorded move in Yamaha Motor’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Started supplyingBecame supplier to Advanced Farm Technologies
2026-08-23Supply: Investment partnership for agricultural robots to Advanced Farm Technologies
PartnershipTIER IV x Yamaha Motor (eve autonomy JV)
2020-01-01In 2020, TIER IV and Yamaha Motor launched eve autonomy, a joint venture combining Tier IV's Autoware operating system and Yamaha's vehicle-body development technologies to address labor shortages and growing needs for high-mix, low-volume production in autonomous mobility.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJul 23, 2026
Yamaha Motor logo
- Record createdJun 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (4)
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Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-12
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-12
Sources by quality tier
- 4
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Yamaha Motor.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- AgiBot6 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Yamaha Motor from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Axya Announces $17M CAD Series A to Deepen AI Risk Detection for Manufacturers
Axya, an AI-powered procurement platform for manufacturers, has secured $17 million CAD in Series A funding led by McRock Capital, with participation from Yamaha Motor Ventures…
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. 2026 Q2 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation
Material Reducing Molding Cycle Time Adopted on Outboard Motors for the First Time
Material Reducing Molding Cycle Time by 20% Adopted on Outboard Motors for the First Time – Contributing to carbon neutrality efforts with High-Cycle SMC Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.…
Yamaha Motor Opens Robotics Sales & Service Facility in Gurugram, India
Yamaha Motor Opens Sales and Service Facility for Robotics Business in Gurugram, India - Strengthening sales and service operations to drive business expansion in the Indian market - - News releases | Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.
Yamaha Robotics delivers complete surface-mount line to Astemo UK
Raising Productivity with the Latest Connected Factory Standards
Yamaha Motor Establishes New Company in Singapore for Its Robotics Business
Yamaha Motor to Propose Next-Generation Transport Solutions at iREX2025 - Combining Two Kinds of
Yamaha Motor Releases the New 7-Axis Yamaha Motor Cobot - Compact, Dedicated DC48V Controller Also Released -
Yamaha Motor launches 7-axis collaborative robot with dedicated 48V controller
Yamaha Motor Establishes Joint Venture TY ROBOTICS Co., Ltd.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/yamaha-motor.md
- RSS feed: /companies/yamaha-motor/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/098448e0-6504-4964-812e-e082a04320ac
- Revision history: /companies/yamaha-motor/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- AgiBot6 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
Video
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Heat Index
Serious52/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Yamaha Motor draws attention at the 77th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 4, 2026