Japanese robotics start-up seeks Indian partners to manufacture humanoid robots

Kanaoka (third from left), Founder and Consultant Director, Jinki Ittai Co. Ltd., Japan; U Subba Rao (fourth left), Normal Supervisor, Integral Coach Manufacturing facility, Ministry of Railways, Chennai; and N. Ramesh Kumar (left), MD and CEO, RIR Energy Electronics Restricted, Mumbai, visiting a stall after inaugurating the twenty first version of INTEC 2026
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Japan-based robotics start-up Jinki-Ittai is on the lookout for partners in India to manufacture its human-operated robots.

Kanaoka, president of Jinki – Ittai (Man-Machine Synergy Effectors, Inc.), who inaugurated the twenty first version of the economic equipment exhibition INTEC 2026 organised by the Coimbatore District Small Industries Affiliation in Coimbatore on Thursday, instructed The Hindu that it has patents for all its applied sciences.

The startup, valued at about ₹179 crore (three billion Japanese yen), is wanting to promote using its robots on a subscription foundation. “We’re costly. So we create specialised enterprise fashions that make it simple for customers. We’ve a subscription mannequin in order that the robots can be utilized the way in which we use our cell phones,” he stated.

“We’ve partners in Japan who make robots for the Japanese market. We’re on the lookout for comparable partners in India too,” he added. The Jinki-Ittai robots are utilized in Japan for the upkeep of railway traces and so forth. “These robots are focused for software in areas the place human lives are in danger,” he stated. The startup is particularly exploring alternatives in India in foundries and railways.

U Subba Rao, Normal Supervisor of Integral Coach Manufacturing facility, Chennai, stated there are plans to make investments ₹500 crore within the subsequent two years in robotic welding automation for making coach shells. The ICF, Chennai, produces 3,000 to 3,500 coaches yearly. He urged the Indian manufacturing industries to try to be globally aggressive and provide to markets “that matter”, such because the US and the EU.

In accordance to N Ramesh Kumar, Managing Director and Chief Govt Officer of RIR Energy Electronics, the corporate is investing nearly ₹600 crore in Odisha to make silicon carbide gadgets. The gadgets used now in small energy crops are largely imported from China, he stated.

Chairman of Intec 2026, EK Ponnuswamy, stated the five-day occasion on the CODISSIA Commerce Truthful Complicated has greater than 700 stalls unfold throughout 2.65 sq.ft and has nearly 465 exhibitors. The main target this 12 months is on robotics, AI, IoT, and so forth within the manufacturing sector.

Revealed on June 4, 2026