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      "company": "Honda Motor",
      "hq_country": "Japan",
      "website": "https://global.honda/en/",
      "status": "active",
      "what_it_builds": "Honda develops the Honda Avatar Robot, a wheeled, remotely operated humanoid with dexterous multi-fingered hands and AI-assisted teleoperation for maintenance, healthcare, disaster relief and space exploration. It continues the company’s P2/ASIMO robotics lineage (https://global.honda/en/stories/025.html).",
      "what_it_builds_source": "https://global.honda/en/RandD/field/hgrx/honda-multi-fingered-hand/avatar-robot.html",
      "founded_year": "1948",
      "founded_source": "https://global.honda/en/investors/faq.html",
      "funding_usd": null,
      "funding_basis": "public company",
      "funding_source": null,
      "funding_note": "Listed parent Honda Motor Co., Ltd.; not a separately financed robotics startup. First Tokyo listing: 1957 (https://global.honda/en/investors/faq.html). No equity rounds summed: reliable gross proceeds for the historical pre-IPO, IPO and subsequent equity issues were not established in the sources reviewed, so total and latest equity funding date remain unknown, not zero. Excluded 2022-03-03 USD 2.75 billion senior-note offering: debt, not equity (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715153/000119312522064976/d221279d424b2.htm). No sourced valuation or market-capitalisation observation retained; valuation date unavailable.",
      "latest_funding_date": null,
      "valuation_usd": null,
      "latest_model": "Honda Avatar Robot (publicly exhibited 2022; further demo announced for 2026)",
      "latest_model_year": "2022",
      "latest_model_source": "https://global.honda/jp/news/2022/c220303.html",
      "units_shipped": null,
      "units_shipped_source": null,
      "units_shipped_note": "No published count of humanoid units delivered, sold or shipped was found for ASIMO or Honda Avatar Robot in the sources reviewed. Honda’s ASIMO retrospective reports demonstration activity and walking statistics, not deliveries (https://global.honda/en/robotics/asimo/). The Avatar Robot remains described as research/development; exhibit and demo counts are not shipments. A further demo, not a delivery disclosure, was announced for 2026: https://global.honda/en/RandD/field/hgrx/honda-multi-fingered-hand/humanoids-summit.html",
      "as_of": "2026-11-03"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://global.honda/en/about/overview.html",
    "https://global.honda/en/investors/faq.html",
    "https://global.honda/en/RandD/field/hgrx/honda-multi-fingered-hand/avatar-robot.html",
    "https://global.honda/en/stories/025.html",
    "https://global.honda/jp/news/2022/c220303.html",
    "https://global.honda/en/RandD/field/hgrx/honda-multi-fingered-hand/humanoids-summit.html",
    "https://global.honda/en/robotics/asimo/",
    "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715153/000119312522064976/d221279d424b2.htm"
  ]
}