Microchip-testing-equipment maker Advantest Corp. and industrial-robot maker Yaskawa Electric Corp. have confirmed that they placed pension money with AIJ.
From the Japanese automobile maker Honda, the ASIMO robot was an in-house project throughout the 2000s, and was taller than the QRIO by two feet and weighed more than three times more.
Turgeman said there was an emerging market for people who want to make things, a movement back to craft culture that takes advantage of modern technology -- sometimes referred to as the maker movement (hence the name of the robot).