Yaskawa Electric Corporation

The company was founded in 1915, and its head office is located in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. Yaskawa applied for a trademark on the term "Mechatronics" in 1969, it was approved in 1972. The head-office, in Kitakyushu, was designed by the American architect Antonin Raymond in 1954.

The company is listed on the Tokyo and Fukuoka Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.

In July 2026, Yaskawa participated in a Fujitsu-led initiative with FANUC and Kawasaki Heavy Industries to develop a collaborative control platform for physical artificial intelligence using Nvidia technologies. The companies said the initial phase would begin later that year, with potential applications for intelligent robots in factories, hospitals and homes.

Products and services

• Servo Drives and Machine Controllers
• AC Drives
• Robots
  • Industrial robots for various industrial processes: Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm (SCARA), collaborative robots
• System Engineering used in:
  • Steel plants
  • Social systems (water circulation, energy conservation, disaster prevention, mega-solar systems, hybrid electrical generation systems and energy management systems)
  • Environment & energy (power generation equipment)
  • Electrical power (electric power distribution equipment)
  • Industrial electronics
• Information Technology
• Equipment for Energy Saving and Creation