We provide various support and activities to young people in order to develop engineers who will lead the future.

Using the Robot Village (Yaskawa Innovation Center, Yaskawa History Museum, Robot Factory, Greenbelt) as well as each factory and robot center, visitors will be able to come into contact with technologies and products centered on “motors and their applications” that Yaskawa has cultivated over 100 years. The initiatives are intended to encourage interest in science and technology that is continuing to evolve on a daily basis, and will contribute to the development of human resources who will be responsible for next-generation manufacturing.

We sponsored programs for children at museums and science museums in Kitakyushu City, where our head office is located, and held a handmade motor class at the YASKAWA Innovation Center. The participants learned the basics of the operating principles of the motor, which is the source of Yaskawa’s core technology, and experienced the joy and depth of manufacturing through repeated trial and error.

Since 2015, we have held an event called “Yaskawa Electric Girl’s Day” *1 every year for junior high school girls in Kitakyushu City, where our head office is located, to introduce them to workplaces in the field of science and manufacturing. In fiscal 2024, we introduced a handmade robot kit, newly planned and produced by our company, in which a model robot is assembled and programmed to operate. Yaskawa employees acted as lecturers and gave participants the opportunity to experience the joy of manufacturing. In addition, participants interacted with Yaskawa engineers through job introductions and round-table discussions so that they could have an image of getting engaged in what they like and care about as a job, regardless of gender.

*1: “Girl’s Day” is an open event started by the German government in 2001 for companies, universities, research centers, and other organizations to invite female students from elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools to promote female participation in the engineering career.

We participate in “The Consortium of Human Education for Future Robot System Integration (CHERSI)” which was organized under the leadership of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to promote the development of future robotics-related human resources. The support targets of CHERSI are technical colleges, technical high schools, and the Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job Seekers. By participating in CHERSI, we will contribute to the development of a wide range of human resources for the advanced industrial robot market.

Since 2005, Yaskawa Electric has co-sponsored the annual Technical College Students’ Robot Contest, popularly known as the Kosen Robo-Con, which is held since 1988. In this event, engineers-to-be from around Japan compete focusing on robot production ideas and technology as well as robot performance.
As a company in the robotics business, we support this educational opportunity in order to encourage many young students to get involved in manufacturing and in hopes of fostering the next generation of talent.

As a part of the project for the 100th anniversary of the company’s establishment, Yaskawa published a comic book, “Hataraku Robot no Himitsu (The Secret of Robots Manufacturing),” as one of the series of educational materials for primary school children “Manga de Yokuwakaru Series (Let’s Learn It with Comic),” planned and produced by Gakken Publishing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “Gakken”) and donated the comic books to 22,000 primary schools and 3,200 public libraries in Japan through Gakken.
The series are Gakken’s educational materials, which introduce various themes in order for children to understand them easily, that have been popular among children for more than 20 years as recommended books by “The Public-Interest Corporation of Japan PTA (Parents and Teachers Association) National Council.” Assenting to its intent and purpose, Yaskawa supported this publication to foster children’s interest in manufacturing and expand their possibility for the future through industrial robots, one of its major products.