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Japan’s lunar rover company developing YAOKI for Moon missions.
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Add a deployment →Dymon Co., Ltd. is a Tokyo-based robotics company developing mobile lunar robots and ground robots, including the YAOKI lunar rover. Its YAOKI project is positioned for lunar exploration missions and was described as the first Japanese rover to join a NASA lunar transportation mission. Dymon says it has developed YAOKI over multiple years and completed the base technology in 2018.
Active products
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Dymon Co., Ltd.
- HQ
- Tokyo, Japan
- Founded
- 2012 · 14 yrs
- Website
- dymon.co.jp/en
Safety reports
Japanese workplace accidents reach the labour ministry and product incidents reach NITE. We read both, and they are small files.
Press coverage
- Astrobotic and Dymon Announce Agreement to Bring the First Japanese Lunar Rover to the Moon
Astrobotic · Oct 2019
- Yaoki
Wikipedia
Milestones
- 2024launch
Launched YAOKI
Announced an agreement with Astrobotic to send YAOKI on Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar mission.
Reported that the base technology for YAOKI had been completed.
Company founded.
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