Yaskawa / Motoman

Yaskawa Electric Corporation is a Kitakyushu, Japan industrial automation company and the world's largest manufacturer of AC servo motors and motion controllers, with major business segments in motion control (AC servo motors, SERVOPACK amplifiers, machine controllers), AC drives / inverters, industrial robotics (under the Motoman brand), and systems engineering. Yaskawa's Motoman robotics division supplies articulated, SCARA, delta, collaborative, and mini robots used across automotive, EV, semiconductor, electronics, food, biomedical, and logistics manufacturing, alongside its Sigma-X servo family and GA / U1000 industrial AC drives. The company exposes a developer surface through the Yaskawa Motoman Developer Portal at developer.motoman.com and the Yaskawa-Global GitHub organization, including YMConnect (a modern PC-side communication library for C++ 17 and C#), MotoPlus SDK (on-controller C code for deterministic motion, I/O, jobs, and alarms), MotoROS2 (a native ROS 2 / micro-ROS node running on DX200, YRC1000, and YRC1000micro controllers), MotoCom SDK (legacy Windows communication SDK), the Smart Pendant SDK (Java extensions for the Smart Pendant teach interface), and YIP (Yaskawa Innovation Plus) packages and Smart Packager tooling. The catalog is SDK- and protocol-driven rather than HTTP/REST — there are no public OpenAPI specifications, so this profile captures the SDK, ROS, GitHub, and developer-portal surface without generated OpenAPI artifacts.

Yaskawa / Motoman is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Robotics, Industrial Robotics, Industrial Automation, Motion Control, and Servo Motors.

The Yaskawa / Motoman catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Yaskawa / Motoman’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, GitHub presence, tooling, support, product news, YouTube channel, and 24 more developer resources.

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20.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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RoboticsIndustrial RoboticsIndustrial AutomationMotion ControlServo MotorsAC DrivesVariable Frequency DrivesInvertersManufacturingFactory AutomationSCARAArticulated RobotsDelta RobotsCollaborative RobotsROS 2micro-ROSMotoPlusMotomanSigma-XHardwareSDK

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 20.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 5.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 7.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

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Documentation 2

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Learn 1

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YouTube

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: yaskawa-robotics
name: Yaskawa / Motoman
description: Yaskawa Electric Corporation is a Kitakyushu, Japan industrial automation company and the world's largest manufacturer
  of AC servo motors and motion controllers, with major business segments in motion control (AC servo motors, SERVOPACK amplifiers,
  machine controllers), AC drives / inverters, industrial robotics (under the Motoman brand), and systems engineering. Yaskawa's
  Motoman robotics division supplies articulated, SCARA, delta, collaborative, and mini robots used across automotive, EV,
  semiconductor, electronics, food, biomedical, and logistics manufacturing, alongside its Sigma-X servo family and GA / U1000
  industrial AC drives. The company exposes a developer surface through the Yaskawa Motoman Developer Portal at developer.motoman.com
  and the Yaskawa-Global GitHub organization, including YMConnect (a modern PC-side communication library for C++ 17 and C#),
  MotoPlus SDK (on-controller C code for deterministic motion, I/O, jobs, and alarms), MotoROS2 (a native ROS 2 / micro-ROS
  node running on DX200, YRC1000, and YRC1000micro controllers), MotoCom SDK (legacy Windows communication SDK), the Smart
  Pendant SDK (Java extensions for the Smart Pendant teach interface), and YIP (Yaskawa Innovation Plus) packages and Smart
  Packager tooling. The catalog is SDK- and protocol-driven rather than HTTP/REST — there are no public OpenAPI specifications,
  so this profile captures the SDK, ROS, GitHub, and developer-portal surface without generated OpenAPI artifacts.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/yaskawa-robotics.png
tags:
- Robotics
- Industrial Robotics
- Industrial Automation
- Motion Control
- Servo Motors
- AC Drives
- Variable Frequency Drives
- Inverters
- Manufacturing
- Factory Automation
- SCARA
- Articulated Robots
- Delta Robots
- Collaborative Robots
- ROS 2
- micro-ROS
- MotoPlus
- Motoman
- Sigma-X
- Hardware
- SDK
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yaskawa-robotics/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/yaskawa-robotics-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.yaskawa-global.com
- type: Website
  url: https://www.yaskawa.com
- type: Website
  url: https://www.motoman.com
- type: Company
  url: https://www.yaskawa-global.com/company
- type: Business
  url: https://www.yaskawa-global.com/company/profile/business
- type: Products
  url: https://www.yaskawa.com/products
- type: Robotics
  url: https://www.motoman.com/en-us/products/robots
- type: Software
  url: https://www.motoman.com/en-us/products/software
- type: Portal
  url: https://developer.motoman.com/en/home
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.motoman.com/en/YMConnect
- type: Documentation
  url: https://knowledge.motoman.com/hc/en-us/articles/33634309555730-Programming-Languages-Developer-Tools
- type: KnowledgeBase
  url: https://knowledge.motoman.com/hc/en-us
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Yaskawa-Global
- type: SDKs
  url: https://github.com/Yaskawa-Global/YMConnect
- type: SDKs
  url: https://github.com/Yaskawa-Global/SmartPendantSDK
- type: SDKs
  url: https://www.motoman.com/en-us/products/software/development/motocom-sdk
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/Yaskawa-Global/motoros2
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/Yaskawa-Global/motoros2_interfaces
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/Yaskawa-Global/motoman_ros2_support_packages
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/Yaskawa-Global/micro_ros_motoplus
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/Yaskawa-Global/Roxal
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/YaskawaEurope/ros2-starter-for-yaskawa-robots
- type: Tools
  url: https://developer.motoman.com/en/yip/smart-packager
- type: Support
  url: https://www.motoman.com/en-us/about/support
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.yaskawa-global.com/company/careers
- type: News
  url: https://www.yaskawa-global.com/news
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yaskawa-electric-corporation
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yaskawa-america-inc-
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@MotomanRoboticsYaskawa
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/Yaskawa_America
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Yaskawa / Motoman

Kin Score

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Yaskawa Robotics Context

Security Posture 1

Yaskawa Robotics Domain Security

Resources

Get Started 1

Documentation 2

Build 11

Access & Security 1

Learn 1

Operate 1

Company 8

Other 6

Source (apis.yml)