Tmsuk

Tmsuk was founded in 2000 by Yoichi Takamoto, who is still chairman and representative director, and grew up in Kitakyushu before moving its head office to a converted machiya townhouse in Kyoto's Nishijin district. It is a small private firm that sells what it calls workroids, service robots for medicine, disaster response and mobility: the RODEM personal mobility chair, the Pedia_Roid child-patient simulator for medical training, a sewer inspection robot and ceiling-construction robots, with bases in Fukuoka, Miyazaki and Taipei.

Its humanoid work has been episodic. With Atsuo Takanishi's laboratory at Waseda University it built the WL-16 walking chair that carries a person, and in 2005 the samurai-armoured Kiyomori, a 39-joint biped made for a Niigata science museum exhibition. Its best-known machine is not a humanoid at all but the T-52 Enryu rescue robot of 2004, developed with Kyoto University and the Kitakyushu fire department.

In July 2025 tmsuk co-founded the Kyoto Humanoid Association with Waseda, Murata Manufacturing, Renesas and Sumitomo Heavy Industries, aiming at a prototype by March 2026 and mass production from 2027 of two machines, a roughly 250 cm disaster robot able to lift over 50 kg and a human-sized research model. No funding, headcount or unit figures have been published.