Yaskawa HC Series

Yaskawa HC Series is a commercial product line of collaborative robots associated with Yaskawa, the Japanese industrial-automation company. It is a product brand rather than a separate company. The supplied materials identify Yaskawa as a global manufacturer whose offerings include industrial robots, variable-frequency drives, servo systems, and machine controllers; they do not provide a detailed HC Series product catalogue or model specifications. The series belongs to Yaskawa’s broader industrial-robotics portfolio. Collaborative robots are designed for collaborative automation applications, but the available evidence does not establish particular HC Series models, payloads, reach, safety features, applications, or launch dates. Those details are therefore not specified here. Yaskawa Electric Corporation traces its corporate history to 1915 and operates internationally. Its American subsidiary, Yaskawa America, Inc., is headquartered in Waukegan, Illinois. The supplied official pages describe Yaskawa’s wider product and corporate activities but do not give HC Series-specific ownership, sales, or market-availability details. The series is treated as active; no discontinuation evidence was provided.

The HC Series is identified as a Yaskawa collaborative-robot line, but the supplied evidence contains little series-specific historical information. It does not establish when the line began, which model was introduced first, how the range developed, or whether particular models were added or retired. A dated product history cannot therefore be stated reliably from the available material. The corporate context is clearer. Yaskawa Electric has been part of the world market for more than a century, and the company’s official history says it was founded in 1915. Over time, Yaskawa developed a broad industrial-automation portfolio. Its official American homepage describes the company as a global manufacturer of industrial robots, variable-frequency drives, servo systems, and machine controllers. The HC Series sits within that industrial-robotics context, rather than representing a separately documented company. Yaskawa America, Inc. is one regional subsidiary. Its corporate-data page lists a 1967 founding, a headquarters in Waukegan, Illinois, and corporate leadership, but does not identify HC Series-specific managers or provide the series’ North American launch history. Consequently, the corporate dates and facts in this entry describe Yaskawa and its American subsidiary, not the founding of the HC Series itself. The line is treated as active because no supplied source reports its discontinuation.

• 1967

  Yaskawa America founded

• 1915

  Yaskawa Electric founded

A collaborative-robot product line within Yaskawa’s industrial-robotics portfolio.

• Yaskawa HC Series collaborative robots

  A collaborative-robot product line associated with Yaskawa. Model-level specifications are not established by the supplied evidence.

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2. 2History - Yaskawayaskawa.com
3. 3Yaskawa Corporate Data - Yaskawayaskawa.com
4. 4Awards - Yaskawayaskawa.com