Government labJapanSince 1917
RIKEN
RIKEN is Japan's largest national research institute, with about 3,000 scientists across seven campuses. Its Robot Sensor Systems Research Team built the RIBA and ROBEAR patient-lifting robots with rubber maker Tokai Rubber Industries (now Sumitomo Riko).
- Robot models in the atlas
- 22 humanoids
- First robot
- 2009Latest 2015
- Headquarters
- WakōSaitama, Japan
- Is it still sold?No longer soldEvery robot is retired or discontinued
- What is new?2015-07-23Project ends at RIKEN
Robots
2 robot models shown in public, from 2009 to 2015. Newest first. Open one for its full profile.
What is new
The latest stories about RIKEN's robots, newest first.
- Project ends at RIKEN RIKEN · ROBEAR
- ROBEAR announced RIKEN · ROBEAR
- RIKEN unveils RIBA care robot RIKEN · RIBA
The company
What it says about itself and what the sources record.
- Founded
- 1917
- Headquarters
- Wakō, Saitama, Japan
- Focus
- Care robots that lift patients safely using soft materials and tactile sensing (now ended at RIKEN).
- Funding
- Almost entirely government funded; annual budget about JPY 100 billion (US$750 million) in FY2023.
- Partners
- Tokai Rubber Industries / Sumitomo Riko (RIKEN-TRI and RIKEN-SRK collaboration centers, Nagoya, closed March 2015).
Similar makers
Other makers of humanoids, starting with those in Japan.
- Toyota Research InstituteJapan · 11 models
- Waseda University / JST Moonshot programJapan · 10 models
- JSK Laboratory, University of TokyoJapan · 9 models
- Osaka UniversityJapan · 9 models
- Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Japan · 7 models
- Kawada Industries (robot business now Kawada Robotics Corporation)Japan · 6 models
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