GITAI USA Inc., a corporation developing general-purpose work robots for space, has opened a US headquarters office in Los Angeles, CA. The site will be used for engineering, manufacturing, and business development of general-purpose work robots in the United States space industry. In addition, GITAI is pleased to announce a full-scale recruitment drive to support expansion of our business in response to extraordinary interest to our advanced space robotics product line.
■ GITAI USA Inc. LA OFFICE Address: 2255 Dominguez Way, Torrance, CA 90501 USA
■ About GITAI’s expansion into the United States GITAI has rapidly grown in capabilities and scope since its founding five years ago, beginning with the development of sophisticated robotic arms for deployment in harsh space environments. GITAI established a partnership with TOYOTA for building a pressurized lunar rover as a part of agreement between Japan Space Agency and NASA and a contract from the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry. GITAI also successfully executed a robotic arm demonstration in the International Space Station together with the US space company, Nanoracks.
■ About the role of the base in Los Angeles, USA GITAI USA Inc.’s Los Angeles base is our primary hub for space robotics development, including design, manufacturing, and environmental testing. GITAI Los Angeles headquarters will also support our management US business development activities as we carry out our expansion plans for the foreseeable future.
■ Recruiting activities in the United States GITAI USA Inc. will start full-scale recruitment activities in the United States, centering on recruitment at its Los Angeles base. Our current talent recruitment drive began in March 2022, and we have open positions that we target for filling by the end of 2022. The current priority hires are in our engineering department.
■ GITAI’s Mission GITAI is a space robotics startup that aims to provide a safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs in space by 100 times. GITAI aims to provide highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, lunar bases and even cities on Mars. GITAI is bringing together the best talents in the world to make this dream a reality. GITAI is actively seeking highly motivated engineers and business development professionals to support these many endeavors. If you think you have what it takes, come join us to send robots to the final frontier.
■ About GITAI GITAI is a relatively small but rapidly growing company. Over half of our full-time employees have PhDs in engineering and science and three are former research associates from the University of Tokyo and former NASA employees. Our company executives successfully built and sold their companies including Google and American Express. GITAI has many exciting projects at various levels of development and testing, from early concepts to laboratory prototypes to our technical demonstration robot currently deployed in a commercial module of the International Space Station;
– Space Station Support: GITAI robotic arms with tool changers can be tailored to optimize the dexterity for required applications such as solar panel assembly, repetitive gearing, moving, repairing, payload transfer, human EVA support, modules and spacecraft docking support.
– On-orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing: Our non-satellite services include space debris removal to protect satellite constellations. Debris removal is carried out by direct capture or by orbital modification using laser injection and ablation. Debris removal enables companies to maintain reliable satellite systems while avoiding disruptive satellite maneuvering or costly replacement. Our robotic arm satellite services include fueling, assembly, and manufacturing, directly to satellites.
– Establishing Permanent Human Presence on the Moon and Mars: Including inspection on the Moon and Mars, we will conduct construction work on the Lunar Surface Station in support of NASA’s In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) program. We are developing specialized rovers based on our GITAI’s prototype Rover. GITAI’s ultimate goal is to enable high capability, reliable, low-cost operations on the lunar surface.
Company：GITAI Japan Inc (Headquarters in Tokyo), GITAI USA Inc.（LA Office） CEO：Sho Nakanose URL：https://gitai.tech/en Contact Us：info@gitai.tech Facebook Tweets by GITAI_HQ
https://gitai.tech/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/US-office_ver0.1.jpg8531579gitaitechhttps://gitai.tech/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/gitai-logo.svggitaitech2022-06-22 23:00:162024-06-01 20:42:57GITAI Opens US Headquarters in Los Angeles, CA, and Plans Workforce Expansion
GITAI Japan, Inc., developing general-purpose robots for space applications, has developed a robot module that can conduct various tasks in the harsh space environment (ex. outside of space stations, LEO) and it has been going through environmental testing (TVAC, vibration, radiation, etc.) under conditions that simulate the LEO environment. In February 2022, the GITAI robot successfully conducted a variety of tasks inside the JAXA 8m thermal vacuum (TVAC) chamber, and we release a video of it here. *ISAM = In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing
■Demonstration of the GITAI Autonomous Robot inside the JAXA 8m TVAC Chamber
During February 7 – 11, 2022, the GITAI autonomous robot conducted an ISAM activities demonstration inside the 8m TVAC chamber at JAXA’s Tsukuba Space Center. The GITAI developed ISAM 2m robotic arm / robot system conducted assembly tasks such as putting together a solar panel, and ORU (orbital replacement unit) exchange tasks both autonomously and successfully. A 14 hours endurance test was also conducted and the system operated flawlessly until the end.
■Various Environmental Testing Simulating the LEO Environment 1. TVAC Test Conditions – Vacuum: 1 × 10^-6 Pa – Low Temperature: -40°C, High Temperature: +75°C 2. Thermostatic Chamber Test Conditions – Low Temperature: -60°C, High Temperature: +90°C 3. Vibration Test Conditions – 20~2000[Hz] – Overall:24.4[Grms] 4. Radiation Test Conditions – Proton Energy: 70MeV or 200MeV – Fluence: 1 × 10^11 p/cm^2 – Flux: 1×10^6 ~ 1×10^8 p/cm^2/s
■ GITAI’s Mission GITAI is a space robotics startup that aims to provide inexpensive and safe means of labor in space. In 2040, GITAI will be an equal partner with the world’s leading space launch companies, providing inexpensive and safe labor to build space colonies and cities on the Moon and Mars. They provide the transportation, we provide the labor. They lower transportation costs, we lower labor costs.
■About GITAI GITAI is developing general-purpose space robots that can perform inexpensive and safe operations of the following activities: 1) EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity) and IVA (Intra-Vehicular Activity) on Space Stations 2) Docking, mission extension, maintenance and repairs for ISAM (satellite servicing and space debris removal) 3) Lunar exploration and lunar base construction related tasks
Company: GITAI Japan, Inc. (HQ), GITAI USA Inc. (US subsidiary) CEO: (Mr.) Sho Nakanose URL: https://gitai.tech/en/ Inquiries: info@gitai.tech Official Facebook Page Tweets by GITAI64818084
https://gitai.tech/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/146fa0e4b24d37ec1e0d27086b190e0d.png14882646gitaitechhttps://gitai.tech/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/gitai-logo.svggitaitech2022-04-26 08:36:162024-06-01 20:42:57GITAI Conducts Successful Demonstration of ISAM Activities in Simulated Space Environment
The competition for lunar resource exploration and lunar base development is accelerating mainly in the U.S. and China, and the demand for robotic labor, which is cheaper and safer than conventional human astronauts, is rapidly increasing. In response to this growing demand, GITAI has developed the advanced lunar robotic rover “R1” that can perform general-purpose tasks on the moon such as exploration, mining, inspection, maintenance, assembly, etc. In December of 2021 at the mock lunar surface environment in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 conducted numerous tasks and mobility operations, successfully completing all planned tests. Here we release a digest video of the demonstration.
■Ground demonstration of the GITAI lunar robotic rover “R1″ at the mock lunar surface environment in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus During this ground demonstration at JAXA’s mock lunar surface environment, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 conducted the following 4 tests and completed them all in success.
1) Drive, Mobility, and Obstacle Clearance Test We have confirmed that the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 is capable of driving on the mock lunar surface and has the mobility to drive over rocks a few dozen centimeters in size. Owing to the feet (wheels) with individual omni-directional steering, we confirmed that the R1 possesses the ability to move and clear obstacles in any direction.
2) Solar Panel Assembly Test We have conducted a series of activities that are necessary to assemble complex structures (solar panels, communication antennas, etc.) on the moon, which will be critical infrastructure for lunar bases that NASA envisions. Activities such as the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 removing solar panel parts from a container, moving to a point of interest, conducting a series of tasks to assemble a solar panel on the mock lunar surface, and all activities were completed successfully.
3) Lunar Resource Extraction Test In response to the strong interest that NASA and the US space industry is showing for lunar resource extraction, we have conducted a group of tasks to collect regolith from the lunar surface. Tasks include the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 removing necessary tools from a container, moving to a point of interest, collecting lunar samples and storing it, returning all equipment into the container and locking it up, and all tasks were completed in success.
4) Slope (Hill) Climbing Test The GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 has proven that it has the driving performance to climb a sandy slope of 15-20 degrees on the mock lunar surface.
GITAI will continue to improve the versatility of its general-purpose robots and compatibility to the lunar surface environment, in order to conduct a technology demonstration on the moon in the mid-2020s.
■GITAI’s Mission
GITAI is a space robotics startup that aims to provide an inexpensive and safe means of working in space. In 2040, GITAI will be an equal partner with the world’s leading space launch companies, providing inexpensive and safe labor to build cities on the Moon and Mars, and space colonies. They provide the transportation; we provide the work. They lower the cost of transportation; we lower the cost of work.
■About GITAI GITAI is developing a general-purpose work robot for space use that can perform the following tasks inexpensively and safely. 1) IVA and EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity) tasks on space stations 2) Docking, mission extension, repair, and maintenance work for on-orbit servicing (life extension to satellite / space debris removal) 3) Various tasks for lunar exploration and lunar base construction GITAI is planning to perform a technical demonstration inside the ISS (International Space Station) scheduled for 2021 summer.
Company: GITAI Japan, Inc. (Japan HQ) / GITAI USA Inc. (US subsidiary) CEO: Mr. Sho Nakanose URL：https://gitai.tech/en/ Inquiries: info@gitai.tech Official Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/GITAI-1515952648445089/ Official Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/GITAI64818084
GITAI Opens US Headquarters in Los Angeles, CA, and Plans Workforce Expansion
NEWSGITAI USA Inc., a corporation developing general-purpose work robots for space, has opened a US headquarters office in Los Angeles, CA. The site will be used for engineering, manufacturing, and business development of general-purpose work robots in the United States space industry.
In addition, GITAI is pleased to announce a full-scale recruitment drive to support expansion of our business in response to extraordinary interest to our advanced space robotics product line.
■ GITAI USA Inc. LA OFFICE
Address: 2255 Dominguez Way, Torrance, CA 90501 USA
■ About GITAI’s expansion into the United States
GITAI has rapidly grown in capabilities and scope since its founding five years ago, beginning with the development of sophisticated robotic arms for deployment in harsh space environments. GITAI established a partnership with TOYOTA for building a pressurized lunar rover as a part of agreement between Japan Space Agency and NASA and a contract from the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry. GITAI also successfully executed a robotic arm demonstration in the International Space Station together with the US space company, Nanoracks.
– GITAI Developing Robotic Arm for Toyota’s Manned Pressurized Lunar Rover
https://gitai.tech/en/2021/12/13/gitai-developing-robotic-arm-for-toyotas-manned-pressurized-lunar-rover/
– GITAI Wins Government Contract: Development of Extra-Vehicular General-Purpose Robotic Arm and Hand Technology
https://gitai.tech/en/2021/07/30/gitai-wins-government-contract-development-of-extra-vehicular-general-purpose-robotic-arm-and-hand-technology/
– Space robotics start-up GITAI completes successful technology demonstration inside the ISS
https://gitai.tech/en/2021/10/28/iss-tech-demo-ja/
■ About the role of the base in Los Angeles, USA
GITAI USA Inc.’s Los Angeles base is our primary hub for space robotics development, including design, manufacturing, and environmental testing. GITAI Los Angeles headquarters will also support our management US business development activities as we carry out our expansion plans for the foreseeable future.
■ Recruiting activities in the United States
GITAI USA Inc. will start full-scale recruitment activities in the United States, centering on recruitment at its Los Angeles base.
Our current talent recruitment drive began in March 2022, and we have open positions that we target for filling by the end of 2022. The current priority hires are in our engineering department.
* List of positions currently being recruited by GITAI USA Inc.
■ GITAI’s Mission
GITAI is a space robotics startup that aims to provide a safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs in space by 100 times. GITAI aims to provide highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, lunar bases and even cities on Mars. GITAI is bringing together the best talents in the world to make this dream a reality.
GITAI is actively seeking highly motivated engineers and business development professionals to support these many endeavors. If you think you have what it takes, come join us to send robots to the final frontier.
■ About GITAI
GITAI is a relatively small but rapidly growing company. Over half of our full-time employees have PhDs in engineering and science and three are former research associates from the University of Tokyo and former NASA employees. Our company executives successfully built and sold their companies including Google and American Express.
GITAI has many exciting projects at various levels of development and testing, from early concepts to laboratory prototypes to our technical demonstration robot currently deployed in a commercial module of the International Space Station;
– Space Station Support:
GITAI robotic arms with tool changers can be tailored to optimize the dexterity for required applications such as solar panel assembly, repetitive gearing, moving, repairing, payload transfer, human EVA support, modules and spacecraft docking support.
– On-orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing:
Our non-satellite services include space debris removal to protect satellite constellations. Debris removal is carried out by direct capture or by orbital modification using laser injection and ablation. Debris removal enables companies to maintain reliable satellite systems while avoiding disruptive satellite maneuvering or costly replacement. Our robotic arm satellite services include fueling, assembly, and manufacturing, directly to satellites.
– Establishing Permanent Human Presence on the Moon and Mars:
Including inspection on the Moon and Mars, we will conduct construction work on the Lunar Surface Station in support of NASA’s In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) program. We are developing specialized rovers based on our GITAI’s prototype Rover. GITAI’s ultimate goal is to enable high capability, reliable, low-cost operations on the lunar surface.
Company：GITAI Japan Inc (Headquarters in Tokyo), GITAI USA Inc.（LA Office）
CEO：Sho Nakanose
URL：https://gitai.tech/en
Contact Us：info@gitai.tech
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Tweets by GITAI_HQ
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GITAI Conducts Successful Demonstration of ISAM Activities in Simulated Space Environment
NEWSGITAI Japan, Inc., developing general-purpose robots for space applications, has developed a robot module that can conduct various tasks in the harsh space environment (ex. outside of space stations, LEO) and it has been going through environmental testing (TVAC, vibration, radiation, etc.) under conditions that simulate the LEO environment. In February 2022, the GITAI robot successfully conducted a variety of tasks inside the JAXA 8m thermal vacuum (TVAC) chamber, and we release a video of it here.
*ISAM = In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing
■Demonstration of the GITAI Autonomous Robot inside the JAXA 8m TVAC Chamber
During February 7 – 11, 2022, the GITAI autonomous robot conducted an ISAM activities demonstration inside the 8m TVAC chamber at JAXA’s Tsukuba Space Center.
The GITAI developed ISAM 2m robotic arm / robot system conducted assembly tasks such as putting together a solar panel, and ORU (orbital replacement unit) exchange tasks both autonomously and successfully.
A 14 hours endurance test was also conducted and the system operated flawlessly until the end.
■Various Environmental Testing Simulating the LEO Environment
1. TVAC Test
Conditions
– Vacuum: 1 × 10^-6 Pa
– Low Temperature: -40°C, High Temperature: +75°C
2. Thermostatic Chamber Test
Conditions
– Low Temperature: -60°C, High Temperature: +90°C
3. Vibration Test
Conditions
– 20~2000[Hz]
– Overall:24.4[Grms]
4. Radiation Test
Conditions
– Proton Energy: 70MeV or 200MeV
– Fluence: 1 × 10^11 p/cm^2
– Flux: 1×10^6 ~ 1×10^8 p/cm^2/s
■ GITAI’s Mission
GITAI is a space robotics startup that aims to provide inexpensive and safe means of labor in space.
In 2040, GITAI will be an equal partner with the world’s leading space launch companies, providing inexpensive and safe labor to build space colonies and cities on the Moon and Mars.
They provide the transportation, we provide the labor.
They lower transportation costs, we lower labor costs.
■About GITAI
GITAI is developing general-purpose space robots that can perform inexpensive and safe operations of the following activities:
1) EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity) and IVA (Intra-Vehicular Activity) on Space Stations
2) Docking, mission extension, maintenance and repairs for ISAM (satellite servicing and space debris removal)
3) Lunar exploration and lunar base construction related tasks
Company: GITAI Japan, Inc. (HQ), GITAI USA Inc. (US subsidiary)
CEO: (Mr.) Sho Nakanose
URL: https://gitai.tech/en/
Inquiries: info@gitai.tech
Official Facebook Page
Tweets by GITAI64818084
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GITAI develops Lunar Robotic Rover R1 and conducts successful demonstration at JAXA’s Mock Lunar Surface Environment
NEWSThe competition for lunar resource exploration and lunar base development is accelerating mainly in the U.S. and China, and the demand for robotic labor, which is cheaper and safer than conventional human astronauts, is rapidly increasing. In response to this growing demand, GITAI has developed the advanced lunar robotic rover “R1” that can perform general-purpose tasks on the moon such as exploration, mining, inspection, maintenance, assembly, etc. In December of 2021 at the mock lunar surface environment in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 conducted numerous tasks and mobility operations, successfully completing all planned tests. Here we release a digest video of the demonstration.
■Ground demonstration of the GITAI lunar robotic rover “R1″ at the mock lunar surface environment in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus
During this ground demonstration at JAXA’s mock lunar surface environment, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 conducted the following 4 tests and completed them all in success.
1) Drive, Mobility, and Obstacle Clearance Test
We have confirmed that the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 is capable of driving on the mock lunar surface and has the mobility to drive over rocks a few dozen centimeters in size. Owing to the feet (wheels) with individual omni-directional steering, we confirmed that the R1 possesses the ability to move and clear obstacles in any direction.
2) Solar Panel Assembly Test
We have conducted a series of activities that are necessary to assemble complex structures (solar panels, communication antennas, etc.) on the moon, which will be critical infrastructure for lunar bases that NASA envisions. Activities such as the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 removing solar panel parts from a container, moving to a point of interest, conducting a series of tasks to assemble a solar panel on the mock lunar surface, and all activities were completed successfully.
3) Lunar Resource Extraction Test
In response to the strong interest that NASA and the US space industry is showing for lunar resource extraction, we have conducted a group of tasks to collect regolith from the lunar surface. Tasks include the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 removing necessary tools from a container, moving to a point of interest, collecting lunar samples and storing it, returning all equipment into the container and locking it up, and all tasks were completed in success.
4) Slope (Hill) Climbing Test
The GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 has proven that it has the driving performance to climb a sandy slope of 15-20 degrees on the mock lunar surface.
GITAI will continue to improve the versatility of its general-purpose robots and compatibility to the lunar surface environment, in order to conduct a technology demonstration on the moon in the mid-2020s.
■GITAI’s Mission
GITAI is a space robotics startup that aims to provide an inexpensive and safe means of working in space.
In 2040, GITAI will be an equal partner with the world’s leading space launch companies, providing inexpensive and safe labor to build cities on the Moon and Mars, and space colonies.
They provide the transportation; we provide the work.
They lower the cost of transportation; we lower the cost of work.
■About GITAI
GITAI is developing a general-purpose work robot for space use that can perform the following tasks inexpensively and safely.
1) IVA and EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity) tasks on space stations
2) Docking, mission extension, repair, and maintenance work for on-orbit servicing (life extension to satellite / space debris removal)
3) Various tasks for lunar exploration and lunar base construction
GITAI is planning to perform a technical demonstration inside the ISS (International Space Station) scheduled for 2021 summer.
Company: GITAI Japan, Inc. (Japan HQ) / GITAI USA Inc. (US subsidiary)
CEO: Mr. Sho Nakanose
URL：https://gitai.tech/en/
Inquiries: info@gitai.tech
Official Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/GITAI-1515952648445089/
Official Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/GITAI64818084
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