5th Nov - Kineo CAM the leading software components provider for collision detection and automatic path planning establishes an office in Kyoto, Japan.

The French software editor incorporated in 2000 as a spin-off company of the national public research laboratory LAAS-CNRS has chosen to open its first foreign office in Japan. Kineo CAM is a Small-Medium Enterprise recognized as a specialist in software for motion planning and collision avoidance; the company delivers its solutions on a worldwide basis and in Japan since 2006.

Since then, a dozen of large Japanese organizations have been using Kineo CAM’s software technology for which the local demand is growing. By opening this office, the company intends to come closer to its current customers while intensifying its penetration in the proven market of manufacturing robotics as well as in the emerging servicing robotics market.

“We are happy to see that Kineo has come closer to us geographically; it could help in distributing more rapidly and broadly their software” says Dr. Eng. Yutaka Hirano, Chief Technologist, Project General Manager at Future Project Division of Toyota Motor Corporation.

In operation since last July, Kineo CAM in Japan has already signed a prospect in a new sector – special robots in the semi-conductor market; who has just invested in automatic path planning software to avoid collisions for its equipments.

“Our mission in Japan consists in supporting our local partners, mainly in automotive and aerospace markets but also to increase the number of software integrations with software developers, original robot manufacturers and Japanese research labs in robotics”explains Sébastien Malbranche, VP Sales and Marketing.
Sébastien Malbranche returns to Japan where he spent almost three years in Tokyo, Osaka and Sendai as a visiting researcher then as a humanoid robotics specialist in the early 2000s.

“I’m delighted with this decision as it has been our wish for the past one or two years; it will ease our business and technical relationships” expresses Dr. Eng. Eiichi Yoshida, Co-Director of the Japanese – French Joint Robotics Laboratory, CNRS-AIST UMI3218/CRT established in 2008.