{"rows":[{"company":"THK","hq_country":"Japan","website":"https://www.thk.com/","status":"active","what_it_builds":"THK, a Tokyo-listed maker of LM guides and machine components, built a general-purpose dual-arm mobile manipulator prototype for AIRoA's Domestic General-Purpose Robot Development Competition (selected for the refinement phase in Sept 2026), drawing on its earlier semi-humanoid robot demonstrations; intended for robot foundation-model data collection in homes, shops, factories and warehouses. It is a semi-humanoid, not a full biped.","what_it_builds_source":"https://www.airoa.org/updates/20260930/745/","founded_year":"1971","founded_source":"https://www.thk.com/jp/en/company/outline","funding_usd":null,"funding_basis":"public company","funding_source":null,"funding_note":"THK is a listed company (Tokyo Stock Exchange). Its IPO gross proceeds and any later placements were not found in a source opened for this item, so funding_usd is left empty rather than estimated. The company page gives share capital of 34,606 million yen as of December 31, 2025 (https://www.thk.com/jp/en/company/outline). That figure is excluded because share capital is not a sum of equity raises. No market capitalisation was sourced, so valuation_usd is empty.","latest_funding_date":null,"valuation_usd":null,"latest_model":"AIRoA competition prototype (dual-arm mobile manipulator, unnamed)","latest_model_year":"2026","latest_model_source":"https://www.airoa.org/updates/20260930/745/","units_shipped":null,"units_shipped_source":null,"units_shipped_note":"No published count of humanoid units delivered, sold or shipped was found. The prototype is still in AIRoA's refinement phase.","as_of":"2026-11-03"}],"sources":["https://www.airoa.org/updates/20260930/745/","https://www.thk.com/jp/en/company/outline"]}