Automate What Was Previously Impossible

While traditional controllers remain the standard for high-speed industrial applications, Motoman NEXT is intended for applications that require high levels of intelligence and flexibility, particularly in fields that were previously difficult to automate due to variable environments.

Industries We Serve

Logistics

Handling thousands of SKUs with varied shapes, weights, and packaging. Using 3D vision and autonomous path planning to pick randomly oriented parts from deep bins without collisions.

Life Sciences

Managing specimen transport, de-capping, and sorting of thousands of unique patient tubes.

Bio-Medical

High-precision liquid handling and automated testing where robots must adapt to different labware configurations without extensive re-programming.

Agriculture

Vertical farming tasks such as autonomous seedling planting, crop pruning, and harvesting where the environment changes as plants grow.

Food & Beverage

Robotic automated kitchens that can perform frying, plating, and assembly tasks alongside humans.

eCommerce Fulfillment

Automatically identifying and placing packages onto sorter trays in high-speed warehouse environments.

NEXT-Generation Industrial Robot Platform with Built-in Autonomy

NEXT Manipulators

Introducing our newest generation of motion control: seven versatile manipulators with payloads from 7 to 35 kg. This launch includes two innovative collaborative robots, 12 kg and 30 kg, built to redefine human-robot collaboration through uncompromising safety and power.

YNX1000 Controller

The YNX1000 isn't just an upgrade; it’s a complete evolution of the industrial controller. Designed specifically for the Motoman NEXT series, it bridges the gap between hardware and high-level AI.

ACU Development Kit

The software development kit (SDK) for the Motoman NEXT platform represents a change in how Yaskawa opens its hardware to developers. While traditional Yaskawa robots relied on the MotoPlus SDK (C-based), the Motoman NEXT environment is built around the Autonomous Control Unit (ACU) and modern IT standards.

AI-Powered Autonomy

The controller features a built-in Autonomous Control Unit (ACU) powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Orin. This allows the robot to perform real-time AI processing, enabling "human-like" perception and decision-making for complex tasks like 3D bin picking and item sortation.

Open Development Environment

Unlike previous closed systems, the YNX1000 supports an open environment (utilizing Wind River Linux), which facilitates easier communication with external devices and allows developers to leverage NVIDIA Isaac accelerated libraries.

Programming Pendant

Open development environment for task and skill-based programming to increase collaboration between Customers, Partners, and Yaskawa.

Expanding Into New Areas of Robotic Automation

MOTOMAN NEXT is bring robotics to new areas!

Not Just Advanced. Exactly What Your Operation Needs.

System Integrators:

Safe and smart entry into the fascinating world of adaptive Robots and AI.

Software Developers:

Standard Linux Docker Compose on professional NVIDIA^® hardware for maximum freedom of code.

Pre-installed Services to cover all robot-related motion/ vision/ sensor/ AI functionality.

Professional Digital Twin Engineering Tools are included in the package without reoccuring license cost.

End Customers:

Can realize new robotic automation use cases solving their labour shortage trouble and cutting their costs.

Professional Robotic AI Application Development

The backbone of Yaskawa - a worldwide leading supplier of robot, drive, automation and software technology.

iREX Review - Inside look at Motoman NEXT

Explore Yaskawa’s iREX legacy, the move toward Physical AI, and MOTOMAN NEXT demos featuring autonomous assembly, palletizing, sorting, and stacking.

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Ready-to-use Software Services – Included in the MOTOMAN NEXT Package

Path Planning Service

Real-time generation of motion trajectories for MOTOMAN Robots, automatic collision-free path planning, corresponding 1:1 to the real robot’s motion, incl. behavior on singularities, re-orientations, trajectory deviations at different speed and position levels.

Robot Control Service

Access to Motion & Servos, OT functions, controller status, signals, variables, registers, files, torque and position values, monitor positions and trigger motion.

Machine Vision Service

Visual Programming Tool (Machine Vision Editor). 2D/3D image processing capabilities and workflows, camera calibration, including HALCON library and visual programming tool.