author: Tyler Durden
Mitsubishi Motors' stock increased by up to 17% in Tokyo on Friday after the maker announced a contract with the Highlanders startup from Tokyo University for mass production of humanoid robots, signaling a transition beyond the basic automotive activity and strengthening the wider trend that we have seen and that can cover the global automotive industry.
The Highlanders signed a memorandum of agreement with Mitsubishi Motors on the improvement of humanoid robots for automotive factories and mass production at Mitsubishi's Kyoto plant as early as 2027. Early production series could be 1,000 units per month.
Japanese car maker plans to test humanoids in its own facilities to solve labour shortage problems and increasingly complex production, utilizing operational data to guide wider implementation. Mitsubishi has already invested in Highlanders.
The analyst Citi, Arifumi Yoshida, wrote in his first manufacture that the partnership between Mitsubishi Motors and Highlanders is "positive" for the producer's action due to the fact that they sigali transition to physical artificial intelligence:
After the marketplace closed on 9 July, Mitsubishi Motors announced a memorandum of knowing with Short-Term View: Upside Highlanders, a startup at Tokyo University, on the mass production of humanoid Price robots (09 Jul 26, 15:30) at its plant in Kyoto. Production will start at the beginning of 2027, the mark price ▶420.0, and the monthly production capacity will be around 1,000 units prepared. Highlanders will deal with improvement and sales, while Mitsubishi Motors will usage the expected return on the share price of 27.0% of its quality and another areas to supply the expected dividend rate of 3.0% of production and improvement support. Mitsubishi Motors has invested in the expected full return of 30.1% of Highlanders and is considering additional investments. The company plans to usage robots in Mitsubishi Motors factories with marketplace value of 442 459 million yen for sale in Japan as Japanese-origin AI physical products for various industries both domestically and abroad. Many inquiries have already been received. We believe that the stock exchange will welcome this initiative to extend cognition in the automotive manufacture to physical artificial intelligence, which has besides been designated as a national priority.
Mitsubishi Motors' stock in Tokyo closed on Friday by a 10% increase, but remains at minimum in 2022.
In fresh weeks, Bernstein's analyst, Eunice Lee, noted, "OEMs enter humanoid robotics to increase productivity and unlock fresh gross sources." Read the note here.
Lee noted, "Car manufacturers have respective advantages in hardware, software and scaling. There is simply a crucial overlap of vehicle components and humanoid components — engines, reducers, sensors — as well as production."
It appears that Mitsubishi Motors follows the footsteps of another car manufacturers, including Tesla and respective Chinese companies, in the large improvement and mass production of humanoid robotics. electrical vehicles and humanoid robots share akin component ecosystems, production processes and supply chains, giving car manufacturers a possible advantage in scaling production.
Here is simply a full overview of car manufacturers developing humanoid robots:
The global increase in humanoid production will begin next year. Read the report.
Is this suggesting that conventional American car manufacturers yet start working with humanoid robotics companies? What about Rivian and Lucid? The race for physical artificial intelligence has begun.
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source:https://www.zerohedge.com/
