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Osaka-based holding company of the Panasonic Group; its robotics teams built an AI tomato-picking robot with a ring-shaped end effector for greenhouses.

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Panasonic Holdings Corporation is the listed holding company of the Panasonic Group, one of Japan's largest electronics and industrial-technology groups. The business was founded in Osaka in March 1918 by Konosuke Matsushita and incorporated in December 1935. On 1 April 2022 the group moved to a holding-company structure, with Panasonic Holdings Corporation succeeding the former Panasonic Corporation as parent. Its head office is at 1006 Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka. The company is led by Representative Director, President and Group CEO Yuki Kusumi, and its shares trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under securities code 6752.

For the fiscal year ended March 2026 Panasonic Holdings reported consolidated net sales of 8,048.7 billion yen, 183,685 consolidated employees and 447 consolidated companies including the parent, with capital stock of 259.6 billion yen. The group organises its operating companies into three segments: Devices, covering batteries, electronic devices and industrial devices; Solutions, covering business-to-business solutions, air quality and air conditioning, cold chain, electrical equipment and lighting; and Smart Life, covering consumer products and services. Group businesses also supply factory-automation products such as servo motors and welding equipment.

Panasonic's agricultural robotics work centres on a tomato-harvesting robot. The group first showed an autonomous tomato picker at the International Robot Exhibition (iREX) in Tokyo in 2017. In May 2018 Panasonic described field trials at an advanced farm with three glass greenhouses covering five hectares: the robot used a camera and image recognition to judge ripeness by comparing fruit colour against colour samples set by the farm, picked roughly one tomato every six seconds, could operate for more than ten hours including at night, and used a ring-shaped end effector that detaches the fruit at the stem without gripping the tomato itself. Development was led by the Robotics Promotion Room, with work continuing on recognising tomatoes partly hidden by leaves.

A paper in the Panasonic Technical Journal (Vol. 68, No. 1, May 2022), written by the Robotics Promotion Office of the Manufacturing Innovation Division together with the innovation center of Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd., describes a later version for protected horticulture. It uses a two-stage recognition process that first detects candidate fruit and then measures detailed 3D position, reports a detection rate of 95% or more, uses a dual-ring end effector to avoid damaging the fruit, harvests at about ten seconds per tomato, travels at up to 30 cm per second, and targets small tomatoes of about 40 g or less. The stated goal is unattended, round-the-clock and year-round harvesting supported by remote monitoring.

No commercial sales of the tomato-harvesting robot have been announced; it remains a research and field-trial programme within a diversified electronics group.

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Contact Panasonic Holdings Corporation

WEBSITE

https://holdings.panasonic/global/

PHONE

+81-6-6908-1121

HEADQUARTERS

1006 Kadoma
Kadoma , Osaka  571-8501

Japan

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Founded

1918

Primary Role

Manufacturer

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Primary Region

Asia-Pacific

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Funding Stage

Public

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