# Profiles-a — merge 11 This is the bounded merge of the 20 supplied company profiles, not a claim of worldwide completeness. All 20 inputs are present. Each company key maps to its original row, with every column, string, numeric string and null preserved. Original source lists are retained separately. Dates in the rows remain the input dates. The JSON below contains the table, followed by `issues`. Source URLs are inherited citations, not endorsements of every claim. The merge opened the input source lists to check page availability; a successful response does not establish that every claim is supported. Access failures are distinguished from nonexistent pages. The assignment's seven company-level source warnings are retained because it does not identify the particular failed passages. `funding_usd` is each input's funding total, not a newly calculated total. No batch funding aggregate is introduced: the merge instruction forbids recomputing figures, and these totals mix partial round histories, unquantified corporate financing and a debt-inclusive figure. Null means unestablished, not zero. Arithmetic review found no funding-note sum mismatch at the precision stated by the inputs; ugo, ZEALS and ATOM explicitly use rounded USD conversions. No populated `units_shipped` field is an order, pre-order, capacity or target. No cited URL was conclusively established to be a nonexistent page; unresolved access failures and evidence limits are listed under `issues`. ```json { "rows": { "Toyota Motor": { "company": "Toyota Motor", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://global.toyota/en/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "Toyota builds T-HR3, a remotely operated humanoid partner-robot platform that mirrors its operator and is intended to safely assist people in homes, medical facilities, construction sites and disaster-stricken areas.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/19841525.html", "founded_year": "1937", "founded_source": "https://global.toyota/en/company/profile/overview/", "funding_usd": null, "funding_basis": "public company", "funding_source": null, "funding_note": "Public company (listed in Tokyo, Nagoya, New York and London). No complete, sourceable history of IPO gross proceeds and later equity placements was identified; no amount is reported rather than guessing.", "latest_funding_date": null, "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "CUE6", "latest_model_year": "2022", "latest_model_source": "https://global.toyota/en/mobility/frontier-research/38848314.html", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published count of delivered, sold or shipped T-HR3 or CUE humanoid units was identified.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "Honda Motor": { "company": "Honda Motor", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://global.honda/en/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "Honda develops the Honda Avatar Robot, a wheeled, remotely operated humanoid with dexterous multi-fingered hands and AI-assisted teleoperation for maintenance, healthcare, disaster relief and space exploration. It continues the company’s P2/ASIMO robotics lineage (https://global.honda/en/stories/025.html).", "what_it_builds_source": "https://global.honda/en/RandD/field/hgrx/honda-multi-fingered-hand/avatar-robot.html", "founded_year": "1948", "founded_source": "https://global.honda/en/investors/faq.html", "funding_usd": null, "funding_basis": "public company", "funding_source": null, "funding_note": "Listed parent Honda Motor Co., Ltd.; not a separately financed robotics startup. First Tokyo listing: 1957 (https://global.honda/en/investors/faq.html). No equity rounds summed: reliable gross proceeds for the historical pre-IPO, IPO and subsequent equity issues were not established in the sources reviewed, so total and latest equity funding date remain unknown, not zero. Excluded 2022-03-03 USD 2.75 billion senior-note offering: debt, not equity (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715153/000119312522064976/d221279d424b2.htm). No sourced valuation or market-capitalisation observation retained; valuation date unavailable.", "latest_funding_date": null, "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "Honda Avatar Robot (publicly exhibited 2022; further demo announced for 2026)", "latest_model_year": "2022", "latest_model_source": "https://global.honda/jp/news/2022/c220303.html", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published count of humanoid units delivered, sold or shipped was found for ASIMO or Honda Avatar Robot in the sources reviewed. Honda’s ASIMO retrospective reports demonstration activity and walking statistics, not deliveries (https://global.honda/en/robotics/asimo/). The Avatar Robot remains described as research/development; exhibit and demo counts are not shipments. A further demo, not a delivery disclosure, was announced for 2026: https://global.honda/en/RandD/field/hgrx/honda-multi-fingered-hand/humanoids-summit.html", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "Kawasaki Heavy Industries": { "company": "Kawasaki Heavy Industries", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://global.kawasaki.com/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "Kawasaki Heavy Industries, a listed Japanese industrial conglomerate, develops the RHP Kaleido full-size humanoid robot (in R&D since 2015, now in its ninth generation, Kaleido 9) through its robotics business. It is aimed at remote-operated and increasingly autonomous work in factories and plants around 2030, with disaster-response sites as the ultimate goal.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://kawasakirobotics.com/in/blog/20260316_kaleido9/", "founded_year": "1896", "founded_source": "https://global.kawasaki.com/en/corp/profile/outline.html", "funding_usd": null, "funding_basis": "public company", "funding_source": null, "funding_note": "KHI is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (code 7012) and was incorporated on October 15, 1896 (company profile: https://global.kawasaki.com/en/corp/profile/outline.html). The humanoid programme is funded internally, and no separate funding round for Kaleido is disclosed. I found no sourced figure for KHI's pre-IPO capital, IPO gross proceeds or later share placements, so funding_usd is left empty rather than estimated. The profile gives paid-in capital of JPY 104,484 million as of 2026-03-31; that is a share-capital account balance, not a sum of raises, so it was not used. I did not source a market capitalisation, so valuation_usd is empty.", "latest_funding_date": null, "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "RHP Kaleido 9", "latest_model_year": "2025", "latest_model_source": "https://kawasakirobotics.com/in/event/international-robot-exhibition-irex2025/", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published count of Kaleido units delivered, sold or shipped exists. Kaleido 9 was first shown publicly at iREX 2025 (Tokyo, December 3-6, 2025) as a development platform, and Kawasaki's March 2026 roadmap places deployment in factories around 2030.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "Kawada Robotics": { "company": "Kawada Robotics", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/", "status": "division", "what_it_builds": "Kawada Industries' robotics subsidiary, within the Kawada Technologies group, manufactures NEXTAGE dual-arm upper-body humanoids for factory assembly, inspection and packaging alongside people. It also supplies NEXTAGE OPEN research platforms, continuing the group's HRP bipedal-humanoid lineage.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/en/products/", "founded_year": "2013", "founded_source": "https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/en/company/", "funding_usd": null, "funding_basis": "corporate division", "funding_source": null, "funding_note": "Classified as a corporate division because it is a robotics subsidiary of Kawada Industries within the Kawada Technologies group (https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/en/company/). No rounds summed. Excluded: 2013-03-14 announcement of JPY 150,000,000 initial capital for the wholly owned subsidiary, with incorporation planned for 2013-04-01; this was parent-company capitalization, not standalone fundraising (https://www.kawada.jp/news/2013/pdf/130314.pdf). The current company profile states JPY 100,000,000 capital, also excluded because stated share capital is not a financing-round total. No other standalone equity rounds or standalone post-money valuation found as of 2026-11-03; no valuation date available. Parent-group financing and market capitalization are not attributed to this subsidiary. No currency conversion applied.", "latest_funding_date": null, "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "NEXTAGE Fillie OPEN", "latest_model_year": "2022", "latest_model_source": "https://www.kawadarobot.co.jp/news/1211/", "units_shipped": "1000", "units_shipped_source": "https://www.kawada.co.jp/technology/gihou/pdf/vol44/4401_05_19.pdf", "units_shipped_note": "Approximately 1,000 NEXTAGE-series units cumulatively shipped, reported in Kawada Technical Report Vol.44 (2025), covering the NX01C, NXA and Fillie generations. This is a rounded company-reported count, not an exact total or a full-year figure; the report gives no precise shipment cutoff or model breakdown. It is not a count of HRP bipedal robots.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "THK": { "company": "THK", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://www.thk.com/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "THK, a Tokyo-listed maker of LM guides and machine components, built a general-purpose dual-arm mobile manipulator prototype for AIRoA's Domestic General-Purpose Robot Development Competition (selected for the refinement phase in Sept 2026), drawing on its earlier semi-humanoid robot demonstrations; intended for robot foundation-model data collection in homes, shops, factories and warehouses. It is a semi-humanoid, not a full biped.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://www.airoa.org/updates/20260930/745/", "founded_year": "1971", "founded_source": "https://www.thk.com/jp/en/company/outline", "funding_usd": null, "funding_basis": "public company", "funding_source": null, "funding_note": "THK is a listed company (Tokyo Stock Exchange). Its IPO gross proceeds and any later placements were not found in a source opened for this item, so funding_usd is left empty rather than estimated. The company page gives share capital of 34,606 million yen as of December 31, 2025 (https://www.thk.com/jp/en/company/outline). That figure is excluded because share capital is not a sum of equity raises. No market capitalisation was sourced, so valuation_usd is empty.", "latest_funding_date": null, "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "AIRoA competition prototype (dual-arm mobile manipulator, unnamed)", "latest_model_year": "2026", "latest_model_source": "https://www.airoa.org/updates/20260930/745/", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published count of humanoid units delivered, sold or shipped was found. The prototype is still in AIRoA's refinement phase.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "Tokyo Robotics": { "company": "Tokyo Robotics", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://robotics.tokyo/", "status": "division", "what_it_builds": "Tokyo Robotics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yaskawa Electric Corporation since 1 July 2025, builds the Torobo human-sized humanoid (dual 7-axis torque-controlled arms, waist and neck, on an omnidirectional mobile base) for machine-learning research and automating contact-rich tasks; it has since shown Torobo2.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://robotics.tokyo/technologies/torobo", "founded_year": "2015", "founded_source": "https://robotics.tokyo/about-us", "funding_usd": null, "funding_basis": "corporate division", "funding_source": null, "funding_note": "The company is 100% owned by Yaskawa Electric Corporation, which it became part of on 1 July 2025 (company About us and news pages), so funding is left empty as a corporate division. Earlier pre-acquisition venture rounds were not summed: no primary or reputable-press source stating amounts was opened (aggregator figures are excluded per brief). Acquisition price not disclosed. No valuation reported.", "latest_funding_date": null, "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "Torobo2", "latest_model_year": "2026", "latest_model_source": "https://robotics.tokyo/features", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published count of Torobo units delivered, sold or shipped was found.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "ugo": { "company": "ugo", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://ugo.plus/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "Develops its own wheeled, dual-arm semi-humanoid robots. The latest ugo Nova targets manipulation in factories and warehouses, alongside physical-AI training-data collection and model development.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://ugo.plus/information/2026/09/16/ugo-nova/", "founded_year": "2018", "founded_source": "https://corp.ugo.plus/company/", "funding_usd": "8992876", "funding_basis": "disclosed rounds", "funding_source": "https://corp.ugo.plus/news/2024/01/31/20240131seriesb/", "funding_note": "Summed: 2020-05-29 JPY120m seed/Pre-A https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000013.000034305.html; 2021-04-28 JPY225m Series A https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000020.000034305.html; 2024-01-31 JPY850m Series B https://corp.ugo.plus/news/2024/01/31/20240131seriesb/. FX: announcement-day USD/JPY rates 107.7700,108.8100,146.2600 respectively (Federal Reserve H.10); total rounded to USD. Partial disclosed-round sum. Excluded amount-undisclosed equity: 2018-06-05,2018-10-31,2021-10-29,2022-10-28,2023-12-21,2025-05-27,2026-04-15 (B3). Earlier JPY40m implied by seed cumulative total lacks dated individual amounts; not assigned a guessed FX date. Cumulative JPY1.65bn (2024) and JPY4bn (2026) are not individual rounds and may include debt; not added. Excluded 2026-10-21 JPY1bn debt. No dated post-money valuation found.", "latest_funding_date": "2024-01-31", "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "ugo Nova", "latest_model_year": "2026", "latest_model_source": "https://ugo.plus/information/2026/09/16/ugo-nova/", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": "https://ugo-robot.hatenablog.com/entry/2024/11/29/114527", "units_shipped_note": "No humanoid-only delivered/sold/shipped count found. The company tech blog reported more than 200 cumulative robot shipments on 2024-11-29 without a model breakdown; this cannot be assigned solely to humanoids. Nova was unveiled in September 2026 with mass production planned for 2027.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "ZEALS": { "company": "ZEALS", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://zeals.ai/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "ZEALS designs and assembles the D1, a compact wheeled, dual-arm service humanoid for indoor workplaces. It targets reception, guidance, transport and task assistance in hospitals, elder-care facilities, hotels, manufacturing and logistics sites.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://www.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2130881.html", "founded_year": "2014", "founded_source": "https://zeals.ai/about", "funding_usd": "43943172", "funding_basis": "disclosed rounds", "funding_source": "https://zeals.ai/news/20220512", "funding_note": "Equity: 2016-08-10 JPY 5m common https://mst.monex.co.jp/pc/pdfroot/public/100/3/2021/12/9255001.pdf; 2017-05-18 JPY 81.7m common https://techcrunchjapan.com/2017/05/18/zeals-fanp/; 2018-01-29 JPY 415.8m B preferred https://zeals.ai/news/finance-20180129; 2019-04-01 JPY 345.6m C preferred https://zeals.ai/news/finance-20190401; 2021-04-01 JPY 999.99m D preferred https://zeals.ai/news/20210401; 2022-05-12 USD 27.2m Series E https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/11/japans-zeals-raises-38-8m-to-scale-its-chat-commerce-platform/. JPY amounts per prospectus above; Fed JPY/USD rates 101.27 (issue date), 110.82, 109.12, 111.29, 110.61 (announcement dates): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/DEXJPUS. Excluded: 2015 seed, undisclosed amount (https://speakerdeck.com/zeals/zeals-hui-she-shuo-ming-zi-liao); 2021 JPY 1.8bn headline includes debt/credit (https://zeals.ai/news/20210401); 2022 JPY 1.5bn credit line (https://zeals.ai/news/20220512). Valuation undisclosed 2022-05-12.", "latest_funding_date": "2022-05-12", "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "D1", "latest_model_year": "2026", "latest_model_source": "https://omakaserobotics.ai/en/news-jp/d1-launch-2026", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published D1 count of units sold, shipped or delivered was found. The 100-unit FY2026 figure is a production target (https://omakaserobotics.ai/en/news-jp/d1-launch-2026).", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "Highlanders": { "company": "Highlanders", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://www.highlanders.ai/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "Highlanders develops its own general-purpose humanoid robots, including the bipedal N, together with physical-AI software. N is being developed for industrial work such as automotive manufacturing assistance, alignment, parts supply, assembly assistance and inspection assistance, with the broader aim of automating dangerous, heavy and repetitive work.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://geniac.meti.go.jp/selection_4/ai_robo/index.html", "founded_year": "2023", "founded_source": "https://geniac.meti.go.jp/selection_4/ai_robo/index.html", "funding_usd": null, "funding_basis": "none disclosed", "funding_source": null, "funding_note": "No disclosed equity raise with a stated amount was found in the opened sources, so no USD total can be calculated. Highlanders reported on 2026-05-28 that it accepted an investment from Mitsubishi Motors, but disclosed no amount; excluded because the amount is undisclosed: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000005.000156831.html. Mitsubishi Motors stated on 2026-07-09 that it had already invested and planned additional investment, without an amount; excluded because the amount is undisclosed: https://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/en/newsroom/newsrelease/2026/20260709_1.html. No valuation date or post-money valuation was reported in the opened sources.", "latest_funding_date": null, "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "N", "latest_model_year": "2026", "latest_model_source": "https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000009.000156831.html", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published count of humanoid units delivered, sold or shipped was found. Highlanders' website reports 5,000+ industrial-use contacts and pre-orders, which are not shipments.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "Enactic": { "company": "Enactic", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://enactic.ai/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "Enactic (Enactic, Inc., Tokyo) builds Ena, a humanoid care robot for Japanese care facilities that does laundry, meal-tray collection, cleaning, restocking and routine errands. It also makes OpenArm, an open-source humanoid robot arm for physical AI research. Ena is in a beta program.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://enactic.ai/", "founded_year": "2025", "founded_source": "https://enactic.ai/", "funding_usd": null, "funding_basis": "none disclosed", "funding_source": null, "funding_note": "No equity round with a stated amount was found on the company site or in the press. Valuation: none reported. Founding: the company site says 'Founded July 2025'.", "latest_funding_date": null, "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "Ena (Beta)", "latest_model_year": null, "latest_model_source": "https://enactic.ai/", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published count of Ena humanoid units delivered. Ena is in a beta program with care facilities. A social-media claim of 600 units sold refers to the OpenArm platform, not a verified humanoid figure, so it was excluded. latest_model_year left null: no opened source states the year Ena was unveiled.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "RT Corporation": { "company": "RT Corporation", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://rt-net.jp/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "Tokyo robot maker (Japanese: アールティ) selling research humanoids Gorilla (life-size, based on ROBOTIS THORMANG3) and Bonobo (120 cm teen-size), plus Foodly food-portioning humanoid cobot; since 2025 NSK is partnering on manufacturing humanoids.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000019.000069918.html", "founded_year": "2005", "founded_source": "https://www.nsk.com/company/news/2025/notice-of-strategic-investment-ai-robotics-company-rt-corporation-en/", "funding_usd": "4940000", "funding_basis": "disclosed rounds", "funding_source": "https://www.therobotreport.com/rt-corp-38m-foodly-food-lunch-packing-humanoid/", "funding_note": "Summed: 2019-08-23 Series B ~JPY 400M = $3.8M (The Robot Report, https://www.therobotreport.com/rt-corp-38m-foodly-food-lunch-packing-humanoid/; company release https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000005.000037477.html says the ~400M includes borrowings alongside the share issue); 2017-07-10 third-party allotment JPY 120M (https://robotstart.info/article/2017/07/10/73114.html) converted at the 105.3 JPY/USD rate implied by the Robot Report's 2019 conversion = ~$1.14M. The 2017 round may be the 'Series A' (~JPY 100M) mentioned in 2019, so slight double-count/overstatement is possible. Excluded: Oct 2025 NSK investment and Jan 2026 DIC investment, amounts not disclosed in sources I opened; third-party database figures (e.g. $15.3M in Jan 2026) not used as unverified. No valuation sourced.", "latest_funding_date": "2019-08-23", "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "Gorilla (research life-size humanoid; Bonobo 2021 earlier)", "latest_model_year": "2023", "latest_model_source": "https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000019.000069918.html", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published cumulative or periodic count of humanoid units delivered found; only a single Bonobo delivery to Osaka University (2024-03-29) is announced, not a total.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "OryLab": { "company": "OryLab", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://orylab.com/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "OryLab (Ory Laboratory, Tokyo) builds OriHime-D, a remotely operated telepresence humanoid about 120 cm tall. It has 14 upper-body joint motors and a mobile base, and lets people who cannot leave home do physical work such as serving customers at cafes and reception. It also makes the small tabletop OriHime avatar robot. OriHime-D is offered for rental only.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://orylab.com/product/orihime-d/", "founded_year": "2012", "founded_source": "https://orylab.com/about/", "funding_usd": "6843664", "funding_basis": "disclosed rounds", "funding_source": "https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000034.000019066.html", "funding_note": "Sum of 2 company-announced third-party share allotments, converted at FRED USD/JPY on announcement date (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=DEXJPUS&cosd=2013-11-20&coed=2020-10-20): (1) 2016-05-23 (closed Apr 2016), JPY 229.77M seed round led by Beyond Next Ventures with Real Tech Fund and 8 angels, at 109.47 = USD 2098931 (https://orylab.com/information/2016/05/23/%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%8E%EF%BC%93%E5%84%84%E5%86%86%E3%81%AE%E8%B3%87%E9%87%91%E8%AA%BF%E9%81%94%E3%82%92%E8%A1%8C%E3%81%84%E3%81%BE%E3%81%97%E3%81%9F/); (2) 2020-10-15, JPY 500M round from NTT and Kawada Technologies, at 105.38 = USD 4744733 (https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000034.000019066.html). Excluded: JPY 9M from angels in 2013. An article by Leave a Nest (linked to an investor) reports it as a one-year total with no date (https://lne.st/2013/11/26/orylab-2/). No valuation published by the company or press.", "latest_funding_date": "2020-10-15", "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "OriHime-D", "latest_model_year": "2018", "latest_model_source": "https://orylab.com/about/", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published count of OriHime-D (humanoid) units delivered, sold or shipped was found on the company site or in the press. The company's product page says OriHime-D is not sold and is offered for rental only.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "HatsuMuv": { "company": "HatsuMuv", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://www.hatsumuv.com/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "Tokyo startup (Waseda University entrepreneurship centre) building character humanoid robots (Cutieroid Project, e.g. the 150 cm Cutieroid FA Girl Gourai) and, since 2026, the Type 08 Mobilroid (08式モビルロイド), a semi-humanoid prototype combining a humanoid upper body with a stable wheeled mobile base, teleoperated (arms, torso and head) and aimed at R&D, AI/imitation-learning research and remote work in manufacturing and logistics; HatsuMuv says it is starting sales/adoption consultations with companies and research institutions.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000011.000127494.html", "founded_year": "2021", "founded_source": "https://www.hatsumuv.com/jp/about", "funding_usd": null, "funding_basis": "none disclosed", "funding_source": null, "funding_note": "No disclosed equity round found. The company's news page (https://www.hatsumuv.com/jp/news, posts back to Aug 2025) and its 17 Sep 2026 PR Times release contain no funding announcement, and web searches (Japanese and English) found no press-reported round. Being selected for AIRoA's NEDO-commissioned 'national general-purpose robot development competition' (announced 2026-04-22) is a commissioned-project selection, not equity, and is excluded. Founded 5 Nov 2021 (company site and PR Times company overview). No valuation reported.", "latest_funding_date": null, "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "Type 08 Mobilroid (08式モビルロイド) semi-humanoid prototype", "latest_model_year": "2026", "latest_model_source": "https://www.hatsumuv.com/jp/news/ykc49wo0cvml4osp1u0ylqi77iv1ud", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published count of humanoid units delivered, sold or shipped. The Type 08 Mobilroid was first shown as a prototype on 16 Sep 2026 with sales consultations only just starting; CutieroidDoll orders were announced as planned to open in autumn 2026.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "Telexistence": { "company": "Telexistence", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://tx-inc.com/en/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "Builds its own humanoid robots for retail manipulation, including a 2026 prototype demonstrated autonomously bagging convenience-store goods. Earlier Model-T supports remote merchandise stocking; its Astra development partnership targets Seven-Eleven store work (https://tx-inc.com/en/blog/2025/09/30/12542/; https://tx-inc.com/en/blog/2020/07/21/10624/).", "what_it_builds_source": "https://tx-inc.com/en/blog/2026/06/10/12613/", "founded_year": "2017", "founded_source": "https://tx-inc.com/en/blog/2018/12/04/399/", "funding_usd": "190000000", "funding_basis": "disclosed rounds", "funding_source": "https://tx-inc.com/en/blog/2023/07/06/12082/", "funding_note": "Summed: 2021-06-15 ~$20m Series A2 (https://tx-inc.com/en/blog/2021/06/15/11120/); 2023-07-06 $170m Series B (https://tx-inc.com/en/blog/2023/07/06/12082/). Uses issuer USD equivalents; no FX conversion. Excluded: 2017-06-09 seed (https://tx-inc.com/en/blog/2017/06/09/45/), 2018-12-04 Series A (https://tx-inc.com/en/blog/2018/12/04/399/), and 2026-07-16 Ricoh investment (https://jp.ricoh.com/release/2026/0716_1): amounts undisclosed. MUFG borrowing excluded as debt. Issuer's 2021 ~$41m cumulative funding is not an additional round and lacks an equity/debt breakdown. No verified post-money valuation or valuation date found. Total covers individually quantified equity rounds, not lifetime financing.", "latest_funding_date": "2023-07-06", "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "TX humanoid prototype (public model name not stated)", "latest_model_year": "2026", "latest_model_source": "https://tx-inc.com/en/blog/2026/06/10/12613/", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published count of humanoid units delivered, sold or shipped found in the reviewed sources. Model-T trials and Astra targets are not shipment totals. Hundreds of retail robots in the Series B release are not identified as humanoids.", "as_of": "2026-11-04" }, "EmplifAI": { "company": "EmplifAI", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://emplif.ai/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "Tokyo startup EmplifAI Inc. (株式会社EmplifAI) develops OpenShell, its own dual-arm wheeled semi-humanoid with 28 axes and a face and voice for interacting with people. OpenShell is an open, customisable research platform (ROS 2 / LeRobot) for physical-AI data collection, teleoperation and human-robot interaction, and is the company's entry in the AIRoA/NEDO domestic general-purpose robot competition. The company also rents Unitree G1 humanoids and does robot integration work.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://emplif.ai/news/openshell-development-2026", "founded_year": "2024", "founded_source": "https://emplif.ai/about", "funding_usd": null, "funding_basis": "none disclosed", "funding_source": null, "funding_note": "No equity funding round has been disclosed. Neither the company's site (about page, news list as of 2026-11-03) nor web searches turned up any announced round, investor or amount. The about page gives share capital (資本金) of JPY 5,000,000 and says the company was founded (設立) in December 2024. Share capital is not a disclosed raise, so nothing is summed. The April 2026 selection as consortium lead in the AIRoA domestic general-purpose robot competition (a NEDO-commissioned project) is a commissioned contract, not equity, and is excluded. No valuation has been reported.", "latest_funding_date": null, "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "OpenShell", "latest_model_year": "2026", "latest_model_source": "https://emplif.ai/news/openshell-development-2026", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published count of OpenShell units delivered, sold or shipped. The company announced OpenShell's development on 2026-09-17, showed a prototype at the Physical AI Summit, and says it is taking inquiries about purchases and joint development.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "AGIRobots": { "company": "AGIRobots", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://agirobots.com/jp/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "Nagoya startup whose humanoid line is AGIRobots Worker, a wheeled semi-humanoid (omnidirectional base, lifting torso, two arms, no legs) for factory and logistics material handling, PoCs and physical-AI data collection. It also sells a stationary upper-body semi-humanoid with no model name or unveiling date (https://agirobots.com/jp/products/stationary/) and the HA1 7-axis arm (https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000008.000152095.html); a bipedal prototype appears only as a stated plan in its September 2025 release (https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000002.000152095.html).", "what_it_builds_source": "https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000006.000152095.html", "founded_year": "2024", "founded_source": "https://agirobots.com/jp/", "funding_usd": null, "funding_basis": "none disclosed", "funding_source": null, "funding_note": "No equity round, amount, investor or valuation found. Checked: company site (https://agirobots.com/jp/), the seven AGIRobots PR TIMES releases that open (nos. 2-8, Sept 2025 to Sept 2026), and Japanese and English web searches for funding. PR TIMES lists the company as unlisted with capital blank (https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000005.000152095.html). Nothing summed and no reported round excluded. Funding reported for China's AgiBot (智元), Japan's ROBOTS and Atom belongs to other companies and was not counted. Absence of a disclosure does not show the company raised nothing.", "latest_funding_date": null, "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "AGIRobots Worker", "latest_model_year": "2026", "latest_model_source": "https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000005.000152095.html", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published count of humanoid units delivered, sold or shipped exists on the company site or in its releases. The site says individual project records will be added only after fact-checking and permission (https://agirobots.com/jp/); a June 2026 release still calls Worker in development (https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000006.000152095.html).", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "Vstone": { "company": "Vstone", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://www.vstone.co.jp/english", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "Vstone, an Osaka-based robotics maker, builds the Robovie-R series of life-size, humanoid-styled research robots that pair a wheeled mobile base with an articulated upper body (arms, head) for communication and human-robot-interaction research, plus smaller communication and educational robots.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/23346270/", "founded_year": "2000", "founded_source": "https://vstone.co.jp/english/about.html", "funding_usd": null, "funding_basis": "none disclosed", "funding_source": null, "funding_note": "No disclosed equity funding rounds were found for Vstone in company statements, Japanese/English press, or search results; the company appears to be self-funded/revenue-funded since its 2000 incorporation. No valuation has been reported.", "latest_funding_date": null, "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "Robovie-R4", "latest_model_year": "2022", "latest_model_source": "https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/23346270/", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "Robovie-R4 is sold as a build-to-order research platform (base price JPY 4,950,000); no published cumulative or annual units-shipped/delivered figure was found.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "ATOM": { "company": "ATOM", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://atom-humanoid.com/", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "ATOM Inc. (Koto-ku, Tokyo) develops a dual-arm bipedal humanoid AI robot body and its own physical-AI foundation model, aimed at assisting or replacing work in manufacturing and logistics, with mass production planned.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://beyondnextventures.com/news/beyond-next-ventures-atom", "founded_year": "2025", "founded_source": "https://thebridge.jp/2026/05/atom-raises-3-billion-yen-seed-funding-for-humanoid-ai-robot", "funding_usd": "18818216", "funding_basis": "disclosed rounds", "funding_source": "https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000001.000172692.html", "funding_note": "Summed: 2026-05-27 seed round, JPY 3.0bn, co-led by ANRI, Beyond Next Ventures and JAFCO Group (https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000001.000172692.html; https://beyondnextventures.com/news/beyond-next-ventures-atom). The source gives no USD rate, so this uses the ECB rate on 2026-05-27 of 159.42 JPY/USD (https://api.frankfurter.dev/v1/2026-05-27?from=USD&to=JPY), giving USD 18,818,216. The AI Insider reports 'nearly $19 million'. Excluded: JPY 1.5bn Mizuho Bank loan (2026-08-04), because it is debt, not equity. No valuation has been disclosed.", "latest_funding_date": "2026-05-27", "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "No named model publicly shown; an unnamed dual-arm bipedal humanoid co-developed with NSK (planned 175 cm, 70 kg) is in development", "latest_model_year": null, "latest_model_source": "https://newswitch.jp/p/50123", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published count of humanoid units delivered or sold. Mass production is planned to start in 2027, but plans and inquiries are not shipments.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "O-ID": { "company": "O-ID", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://o-id.net", "status": "active", "what_it_builds": "Tokyo startup building fully modular, wheeled humanoid robots (model 'Modular') for industrial manufacturing and logistics, designed and produced in Japan, with hot-swappable joints, limbs and compute units for on-site repair.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://news.cision.com/san-francisco-oy/r/tokyo-based-o-id-raises--1-2m-to-build-fully-modular-humanoid-robots-as-industries-brace-for-a-short,c4400859", "founded_year": "2025", "founded_source": "https://news.cision.com/san-francisco-oy/r/tokyo-based-o-id-raises--1-2m-to-build-fully-modular-humanoid-robots-as-industries-brace-for-a-short,c4400859", "funding_usd": "1200000", "funding_basis": "disclosed rounds", "funding_source": "https://news.cision.com/san-francisco-oy/r/tokyo-based-o-id-raises--1-2m-to-build-fully-modular-humanoid-robots-as-industries-brace-for-a-short,c4400859", "funding_note": "Summed: 2026-09-24, USD 1.2 million pre-seed led by TAWANI Ventures with Hustle Fund, Techstars and angels (https://news.cision.com/san-francisco-oy/r/tokyo-based-o-id-raises--1-2m-to-build-fully-modular-humanoid-robots-as-industries-brace-for-a-short,c4400859; also https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2026/09/24/japanese-humanoid-robotics-startup-o-id-raises-1-2-million-to-move-modular-robot-into-production/105102/). No other rounds found. No valuation disclosed.", "latest_funding_date": "2026-09-24", "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "Modular", "latest_model_year": "2026", "latest_model_source": "https://humanoid.guide/product/modular/", "units_shipped": null, "units_shipped_source": null, "units_shipped_note": "No published count of units delivered; the company was moving its first robot from prototype to production as of September 2026.", "as_of": "2026-11-03" }, "SoftBank Robotics": { "company": "SoftBank Robotics", "hq_country": "Japan", "website": "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/", "status": "division", "what_it_builds": "SoftBank Group robotics unit (Japanese operating company SoftBank Robotics Corp., under SoftBank Robotics Group Corp.) develops and supplies the Pepper humanoid line for communication in homes, education, customer service and care. Its newest offering, Pepper+, adds AI agents and video analysis for retail customer engagement and other service applications.", "what_it_builds_source": "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/news/press/20260202a/", "founded_year": "2014", "founded_source": "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/corp/", "funding_usd": null, "funding_basis": "corporate division", "funding_source": null, "funding_note": "Corporate division: no standalone funding total summed. Entity scope is the Japanese operating company incorporated on 2014-07-24, not its holding company established in January 2012 (https://www.softbankrobotics.com/profile/). Excluded holding-company equity raises: 2015-06-18 strategic investment, Alibaba and Foxconn each JPY 14.5 billion (JPY 29 billion combined) in SoftBank Robotics Holdings Corp., not the Japanese operating company (https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/document-1491211848781922304); 2022-02-02 third-party share allotment, JPY 10 billion subscribed by IRIS OHYAMA in SoftBank Robotics Group Corp., likewise holding-company funding (https://www.softbankrobotics.com/ja/news/20220202a/). No USD conversion performed because neither raise is summed. No standalone post-money valuation or market capitalisation found; valuation date unavailable.", "latest_funding_date": null, "valuation_usd": null, "latest_model": "Pepper+ (AI-enhanced Pepper service-robot version)", "latest_model_year": "2026", "latest_model_source": "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/news/press/20260202a/", "units_shipped": "20000", "units_shipped_source": "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/set/data/news/press/20221018a/20221018_presentation.pdf", "units_shipped_note": "Published lower-bound cumulative sales: over 20,000 Pepper humanoids globally as of September 2022, including over 10,000 in Japan; company presentation dated 2022-10-18, slide 4. The numeric field records the stated threshold, not an exact count. Excludes non-humanoid cleaning and delivery robots. 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documented commercial use and shipments, then demonstrated manipulation and disclosed financing. It is not a benchmark of general intelligence, walking ability, reliability or profitability: the inputs provide no common tests. Wheeled, stationary and bipedal platforms serve different markets. 1. **SoftBank Robotics — strongest documented historical sales scale.** Its presentation supports more than 20,000 Pepper sales globally by September 2022. That is evidence of service-humanoid commercialization, not current annual sales or general-purpose industrial autonomy. The source warning remains, but this sales passage was successfully rechecked. [Company presentation, slide 4](https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/set/data/news/press/20221018a/20221018_presentation.pdf). 2. **Kawada Robotics — strongest documented industrial humanoid shipment evidence here.** Its technical report describes approximately 1,000 NEXTAGE-series shipments and use in real production. This makes it a stronger industrial deployment case than a prototype announcement, while its stationary dual-arm form does not demonstrate bipedal capability. The shipment passage was successfully rechecked despite the upstream source warning. [Kawada Technical Report, first page](https://www.kawada.co.jp/technology/gihou/pdf/vol44/4401_05_19.pdf). 3. **Telexistence — strongest combination of quantified startup financing and demonstrated autonomous retail manipulation in the supplied evidence.** Its row retains USD 190000000 in quantified rounds. Its Series B release establishes the financing and broader commercial robot operations; its 2026 release describes autonomous bagging by a humanoid. Those broader robot deployments cannot be recast as humanoid shipments, and the demonstration does not establish production reliability. [Series A2](https://tx-inc.com/en/blog/2021/06/15/11120/), [Series B](https://tx-inc.com/en/blog/2023/07/06/12082/), [humanoid demonstration](https://tx-inc.com/en/blog/2026/06/10/12613/). The other companies cannot be ordered reliably from the supplied profiles. OryLab, RT Corporation, Tokyo Robotics, Vstone and ugo supply evidence of task-specific products or research platforms, but their rows do not establish comparable humanoid delivery totals. See their retained `what_it_builds_source`, `latest_model_source` and shipment notes. ugo's broader robot shipment disclosure lacks a humanoid model breakdown; RT's financing also has the debt and conversion qualifications listed above. Honda Motor, Toyota Motor and Kawasaki Heavy Industries have research-platform histories in their rows, but those histories do not establish a current commercial lead. In particular, Toyota's cited CUE6 page is a historical snapshot, and Kawasaki's roadmap evidence remains access-qualified. THK, ZEALS, Highlanders, Enactic, HatsuMuv, EmplifAI, AGIRobots, ATOM and O-ID describe prototypes, development, beta programs or new offerings without verified comparable shipment totals in the inputs. Their retained model and product citations document the claimed stages; the source warnings for ZEALS, Highlanders and O-ID limit confidence further. Funding, pre-orders, competition selection and planned production alone do not establish who is ahead in deployed humanoid capability.