Socialudvalget 2012-13
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Muscle Corporation President1988 Tamai quit from the world-top but small robot company.Tamai established Muscle Corporation to be a company with an advanced robottechnology.Muscle started as a venture company focused on “Motion Control”.1994Muscle was approved as a company focused on R&D by Osaka PrefecturalGovernment.Muscle co-developed industrial embroidery sawing machine and medical machinebased on the technology of artificial muscle actuator for robot.2000 Muscle started to sell original artificial muscle actuator “Cool Muscle” in US market.“Cool Muscle” was so popular in US that Muscle started to sell in Asian/EU marketand “Cool Muscle” got No.1 share in this field.2010 Muscle succeeded to exhibit “YUME ROBO” which could go up and down on theouter wall of Japanese Industrial Pavilion at Shanghai EXPO.“YUME ROBO” gave us a chance to be a robot manufacturing company.Almost all of the products Muscle supported had become world-wide bestsellers.2012 2 types of welfare robots, “ROBOHELPER SASUKE” and “ROBOHELPER LOVE”,developed by Muscle Corp. were brought out at H.C.R.Muscle’s concept for both was accepted by many people and reported in the media.2013 Muscle got Takagi Award by The Japan Society for Precision Engineering.