OMRON Invests in Taiwan’s Collaborative Robot Company Techman Robot Inc

November 11, 2021 3:59 pm

Robotic technology where humans and machines work together, offering a solution to labour shortages.

OMRON Corporation announces the signing of an agreement for a capital investment in Techman Robot, Inc., the world’s second-largest collaborative robot brand that work with people at manufacturing sites. OMRON will hold a stake of approximately 10 percent in Techman. The investment is expected to be completed by December 2021.

Junta Tsujinaga, Company President of Industrial Automation Business Company, commented on the investment to strengthen the OMRON-Techman alliance as follows. “The environment surrounding the manufacturing industry is changing significantly. Anticipating these changes, since 2016 OMRON has pursued advanced manufacturing with the unique value-generation concept “innovative-Automation” to resolve issues that manufacturing sites face.”　“We have focused on robot technology and market development since it acquired industrial robot maker Adept Technology Co., Ltd. in 2015. In 2018, we added Techman’s collaborative robots to our product lineup. The strengthening our alliance with Techman at this time further pushes the evolution of collaboration between humans and machines in manufacturing.” “By strengthening collaborative robots, OMRON aims to create manufacturing sites where humans and machines collaborate and solving the issue of labour shortages. By utilising automation technology cultivated in manufacturing sites, we will also actively pursue creating automation to address labour shortages beyond the manufacturing sector in the primary and tertiary sectors as well.”

Shi-Chi Ho, the chairman of Techman Robot said, “Techman Robot has penetrated the global market and successfully become the world’s second-largest collaborative robot company since 2018. Under the alliance, Techman collaborative Robot has enhanced the reputation all over the world with OMRON, which helps achieve our company’s mission of improving the lives of humans through innovation. We aim to close the gap for every business and create smart factory solutions for human-machine collaboration. We are delighted to deepen our longstanding relationship with OMRON through this collaboration, which is a significant opportunity for both companies, addressing the fast-growing gap in the market for the demanding need for smart manufacturing. We believe our partnership will open new innovative doors into the future. OMRON & Techman Robot will together deliver a highly flexible and scalable collaborative robot solution, assisting customers to easily and fully integrate collaborative robotics into smart manufacturing.”

By strengthening its robotics business, OMRON aims to enable the creation of manufacturing sites that accelerate the realisation of our “innovative-Automation” concept, benefitting our customers and enriching people’s lives around the world.