DENSO Wave
Industrial robot manufacturer · Japan
Robotics and automatic-identification subsidiary of automotive supplier DENSO. DENSO built small assembly robots for its own plants for decades before selling them externally; DENSO Wave sells compact six-axis and SCARA robots and the COBOTTA collaborative arm. The company also invented the QR code.
DENSO Wave is a Japan-based industrial robot and collaborative robot maker, founded in 2001 and headquartered in Agui, Aichi. It is owned by DENSO Corporation (TSE: 6902). Product lines include VS series, VM series, HSR SCARA, COBOTTA. It appears in the directory's Industrial Robot Manufacturers (20 companies), Collaborative Robot (Cobot) Manufacturers (21 companies) and Japanese Robot Manufacturers (11 companies) lists.
- Headquarters
- Agui, Aichi, Japan
- Founded
- 2001
- Ownership
- DENSO Corporation (TSE: 6902)
- Robot types
- Industrial robots, Cobots
Products
- VS series
- VM series
- HSR SCARA
- COBOTTA
Directory categories
- Industrial Robot Manufacturers — 20 companies
- Collaborative Robot (Cobot) Manufacturers — 21 companies
- Japanese Robot Manufacturers — 11 companies
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