Mitsubishi Motors has signed a partnership with Highlanders, a Japanese startup spun out from the University of Tokyo, to develop and mass-produce AI-powered humanoid robots. The target is to produce up to 1,000 robots per month at Mitsubishi’s Kyoto plant by early 2027. This marks a first for the global automotive industry, which is using existing production lines to assemble humanoid robots for the first time. The context is Japan’s shrinking workforce, characterized by demographic aging and declining birth rates, which has hit the automotive sector particularly hard. These robots are designed to address labor shortages on factory floors, maintain productivity, and preserve institutional knowledge threatened by the retirement of experienced employees.
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