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HiBot is a robotics company founded 2004, based in Japan, developing 5 robots primarily in the Industrial Arm category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
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Add a deployment →Robots for extreme environments, including amphibious snake robots.
HiBot develops robots for extreme environments, including the ACM-R5H amphibious snake robot used for underwater inspection and search-and-rescue missions. Sources identify HiBot as a Japanese robotics company and note that its product version of ACM-R5H was developed in 2010; the company was founded in 2004.
Company facts
- HQ
- Tokyo, Japan
- Founded
- 2004 · 22 yrs
- Website
- www.hibot.co.jp
RoboScore
53.13 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Adequate evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
5 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #200 of 338·Industrial Arm·best robot 49.29 + depth 2.64 + news 0.00 = total 51.93
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Milestones
A product version of the ACM-R5H was developed by HiBot.
HiBot was founded in Japan.
Press coverage
- HiBot demos new amphibious snake robot
EEJournal
- ACM-R5H
Robots Guide
- ACM-R5H Amphibious Snake Robot
D&D KM-IT
Public loss record
Japanese workplace accidents reach the labour ministry and product incidents reach NITE. We read both, and they are small files.
Active products by HiBot
5 shown| # | Category | Key specs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Expliner | Security | Payload 80 kg·Top speed 0.5 m/s | $3.3K | 2010 | 65.3 |
| 2 |  | ACM-R5H | Security | Top speed 0.4 m/s·Runtime 24 hr | $770.1 | 2010 | 55.1 |
| 3 | SQUID | Industrial Arm | DOF 18 DOF | — | — | 49.3 | |
| 4 | Float Arm | Industrial Arm | — | — | — | 47.2 | |
| 5 | Soryu-C | Industrial Arm | — | — | 2020 | 46.6 |
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