OMRON Ventures Co., Ltd. (CEO: Tomoko Inoue) is pleased to announce that it has made an investment in Realtime Robotics, Inc. (headquartered in Boston, USA), which develops real-time motion planning technology for industrial robots.

Motion planning in real time for unstructured environments has been a long-standing problem in robotics. OMRON Ventures aims to support innovations that can vastly improve the capability and applicability of industrial robots, leading to the creation of new business opportunities in this area.