ROBOTS FOR HEAVY WORK
Orboh builds robots that take on the heaviest work on the site. Our focus today is sorting industrial waste. We have also put robots to work in construction and agriculture — our engineers go on-site and implement them for the job.
SERVICE — HUMANOID FIELD TRIAL
We bring a humanoid to your site and run it on your actual work by full-body teleoperation, so you can see what a robot can do there before you invest.
DEMO VIDEO
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CONSTRUCTION SITE
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TRIAL FIELD
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IN-HOUSE TEST
THE PROBLEM — HEAVY WORK
Fewer people want this work every year. The work itself does not shrink.
INJURY FREQUENCY RATE, 2025
7.65
Waste processing
2.01
All industries
Source: Japan Industrial Waste Management Association, from the MHLW Survey on Industrial Accidents (2025).
OUR FOCUS — INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Sorting industrial waste still relies heavily on human hands. We keep the existing equipment as it is, and have robots take on the picking and sorting people do today.
OTHER FIELDS — CONSTRUCTION AND AGRICULTURE
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At a farm in Kagoshima, a humanoid autonomously grasps and harvests okra. The motor skill was trained from human demonstrations with imitation learning (ACT) — the robot acts on its own, without teleoperation.
HOW WE WORK — THE FDE MODEL
FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) is the model that made complex software work inside real organizations. We bring it to humanoid robots.
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Our engineers work inside your site and your workflow, mapping tasks, constraints, and safety requirements where they actually happen. The people who build and the people who talk to you are the same.
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We fix the workflow and finish the humanoid for that specific task — collecting demonstrations by teleoperation and training motor skills with imitation learning (ACT), iterating on the floor until the work is done reliably.
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Robots run as a service, from implementation through operations and maintenance. Every deployment accumulates skills, failures, and procedures as data — making the next deployment faster and cheaper.
Start with a short trial on your site, by full-body teleoperation. The service page sets out the price and how it works.
See the field trial serviceCOMMERCIAL MODEL — ROBOT-AS-A-SERVICE
No hardware purchase. No maintenance overhead. No facility modification. Orboh robots operate in the same human-designed environments your workers already use — scaffolding, stairs, and passageways.
No CapEx
Implementation to operations
Data compounds
No facility modification
DEV LOG — NOTES FROM DEVELOPMENT
What we tried, what broke, and how we fixed it on the way to putting a humanoid to work on a real site. Kota Ueda, CTO of Orboh, writes it up on note as the work happens.
Three months of okra harvesting with Toyota Auto Body Research, ending in an open field. What physical AI could and could not do yet, seen from both the design and the implementation side.
Kota Ueda
CTO, Orboh, Inc.
Two students joined the okra project for a fortnight after reading this blog. What we handed them, and what stuck, in a field with almost no prior literature.
Three classmates from Kyushu Institute of Technology who moved to San Francisco and founded Orboh — what we build, and the people we want building it with us back in Kyushu.
From a YouTube clip to a Unitree G1 dancing a Kagoshima folk dance: the whole pipeline, from extracting the motion to stabilising it in physics simulation.
dimOS, VLA (GR00T N1.6), world models, WBC. The humanoid software stack laid out layer by layer — what each part actually does, and where it hands off to the next.
NEWS
We have published our field trial plan: a short trial in which we run a humanoid on your site by full-body teleoperation to see what it can do there. It sets out the up-to-three free meetings, the options and prices that follow, and what the report you receive after the trial contains.
See the planOrboh has opened its Kitakyushu office at Mirai Terrace, the incubation facility of Kyushu Institute of Technology in Tobata, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka. All three founders are Kyutech graduates, and the new office is where we will build humanoid robot hardware and prepare it for deployment in the field.
JUNCTION is an international hackathon that started in Finland. Its Kyushu Institute of Technology edition ran September 25–27, 2026 on the Tobata campus, and Kota Ueda, CTO of Orboh, sat on the judging panel. 47 participants from Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, India and elsewhere formed 13 teams, and the "Hack the Physical World" track had them work on agricultural tasks with a Unitree G1 humanoid.
Event site
COMMUNITY — HUMANOID HACKATHON
A humanoid hackathon series by Orboh. Developers from Japan and abroad build real apps on Unitree G1 humanoids — free to join.
TEAM
Founded by a team that spent four years building rockets together — integrating complex hardware and software end to end.
CEO
宮嶋 壯太
CTO
上田 康太
COO
内山 絢登
Industrial waste, construction, agriculture — tell us about the work that is hardest to staff. Our engineers come to the site and work out which tasks a robot can take over.
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