CompanyJapanSince 1910
Hitachi
Hitachi is a Japanese industrial and IT conglomerate founded in 1910 in Hitachi, Ibaraki, now based in Tokyo. Its R&D group built the EMIEW line of wheeled service humanoids from 2005, through EMIEW 2 (2007) and the cloud-connected EMIEW3 (2016).
- Robot models in the atlas
- 33 humanoids
- First robot
- 2005Latest 2016
- Headquarters
- TokyoJapan
- Can I buy one?Not on sale yetPrototype, pilot or research robots only
- What is new?2016-04-08Hitachi launches EMIEW3 with a cloud 'remote brain'
Robots
3 robot models shown in public, from 2005 to 2016. Newest first. Open one for its full profile.
What is new
The latest stories about Hitachi's robots, newest first.
- EMIEW gets an upgrade to help tourists IEEE Spectrum · EMIEW3
- Predecessor EMIEW2 learns office navigation IEEE Spectrum · EMIEW3
- EMIEW2 learns office hotspots IEEE Spectrum · EMIEW2
- Smaller EMIEW 2 follows Hitachi · EMIEW
The company
What it says about itself and what the sources record.
- Founded
- 1910
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan
- Focus
- Customer-service and guide humanoids (EMIEW line) within a broad IT, energy and industrial business
- Funding
- Public company (TYO: 6501); fiscal 2025 revenue about 10.59 trillion yen
- Partners
- NEDO (EMIEW developed under its next-generation robot project); Expo 2005 Aichi demonstrations
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
Sources
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