# Yaskawa / Motoman

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/yaskawa-robotics/  
**Website:** https://www.yaskawa-global.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 16.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 16.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 15.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Yaskawa Robotics Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## 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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/yaskawa-robotics/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.