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YK1200XG
Yamaha Robotics
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YK1200XG
Yamaha RoboticsThe YK1200XG is a 4-axis SCARA robot manufactured by Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Hamamatsu, Japan), featuring a 1,200 mm arm length, 50 kg maximum payload, and industry-leading cycle times (0.55 sec at 2 kg, 0.92 sec at 40 kg). It uses a fully beltless ZR-axis direct-coupling structure, weighs 96 kg, and is paired with the dedicated RCX341 controller. Released in October 2024, it targets heavy-object assembly and transport applications such as EV battery manufacturing. Several extracted facts (about a gaming handheld teardown, a motorcycle engine, a signal generator, and a toy crawler loader) are clearly unrelated to the YK1200XG and have been excluded from the reconciled picture.
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Specification
- maximum_payload
- 50 kg (standard specification); 48 kg (tool flange mount type)
- robot_weight
- 96 kg
- weight_reduction_vs_predecessor
- ~25% lighter than YK1200X (same payload class), achieved via aluminum extrusion with iron base for rigidity
- power_requirements
- 2,500 VA; 200–230 V AC single-phase
Price
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Evidence-graded claims from the Yamaha Robotics deep report
Yamaha's industrial robots (SCARA, Cartesian, cobot, surface mounters) operate fully autonomously once programmed — humans only perform setup, commissioning, and maintenance, not the tasks themselves.
An independent industrial maintenance community on Reddit [13] confirms these robots operate in production environments with human involvement limited to commissioning and maintenance, corroborating the vendor's autonomy description — though the sample is anecdotal and not a formal audit.
from Yamaha Robotics deep report →Yamaha Motor acquired Robotics Plus to build autonomous AI-powered equipment for the specialty crop agriculture market.
Robotics Tomorrow [10], an independent trade publication, reported the acquisition with a direct quote from the announcement, confirming the deal and its agricultural autonomy focus — though actual deployed product performance in the field remains unverified.
from Yamaha Robotics deep report →
Yamaha's 7-axis cobot autonomously adapts its posture to avoid interference in confined spaces, enabled by torque sensors in all 7 axes — without human intervention during task execution.
Only Yamaha's own official product page [2] describes the 7-axis structure and torque sensors; no independent test, customer report, or third-party benchmark in the dossier verifies the autonomous posture-adaptation claim in real-world deployment.
from Yamaha Robotics deep report →The cobot achieves ±0.04 mm repeatability (ISO 9283) with a 10 kg payload at 1,300 mm reach and 3,000 mm/s TCP speed.
All four specifications are sourced exclusively from Yamaha's own official product page [2]; no independent lab test, standards-body certification result, or third-party validation appears in the dossier.
from Yamaha Robotics deep report →Yamaha established the TY ROBOTICS joint venture with TOYO in August 2025 to transfer single-axis and Cartesian robot production and expand the model lineup.
The sole source is Yamaha Motor's own official news release [11]; no independent reporting, regulatory filing, or third-party confirmation of the joint venture's operational status or production transfer progress appears in the dossier.
from Yamaha Robotics deep report →Yamaha's SCARA robots offer up to 1,200 mm arm reach and 50 kg payload, while Cartesian/single-axis robots achieve ±5 µm repeatability with strokes up to 4,050 mm.
These specs come from a 2017 distributor catalog PDF [4] (YRG Inc.), which is not an independent test and is nearly a decade old; current model specifications may differ and no third-party benchmark validates these figures.
from Yamaha Robotics deep report →Yamaha's cobot is commercially deployed across multiple real-world process applications — screw tightening, sealing, visual inspection, polishing, and connector insertion — with named partner companies for each process.
Partner companies (SANYO MACHINE WORKS, ThreeBond, Phoxter, FUJI CORPORATION) are listed only on Yamaha's own product page [2]; no independent customer case study, production volume data, or third-party deployment report in the dossier confirms actual at-scale commercial deployment.
from Yamaha Robotics deep report →
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