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YK250X

Yamaha Robotics

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The YK250X is a SCARA (Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm) industrial robot manufactured by Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.'s IM division, first released on June 1, 2000. It features a 250mm horizontal reach, 2kg payload, ±0.01mm repeatability, and was sold with the QRCX (later RCX144) controller at a launch price of ¥1,550,000 JPY. The YK250X series (YK-X line) has been discontinued for sale since December 2020, with service support ending December 2027. A significant portion of the extracted facts relate to entirely different systems (a humanoid robot, motorcycle engines, mobile manipulators) and are irrelevant to the YK250X; only Yamaha SCARA-relevant facts are reconciled here.

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arm_reach
250 mm total (125 mm X-axis arm + 125 mm Y-axis arm)
maximum_payload
2 kg
maximum_speed
4.0 m/s (XY axis synthesis)
z_axis_speed
0.6 m/s
r_axis_speed
1020°/s

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Evidence-graded claims from the Yamaha Robotics deep report

Good
  • 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 →
Bad
  • 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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