ZMP Inc. is a Japanese robotics company. The company was established in January 2001, based on the research results encouraged the Kitano Symbiotic System Project, under the jurisdiction of Japan's MEXT. Their first product released was the humanoid robot PINO in 2001.
The company's name comes from the Zero Moment Point, a physical quantity related to the dynamics of legged systems.
More recently, they released the humanoid robot nuvo in 2005[1] and the music robot miuro in 2006.[2]
In 2009, the research platform for next generation cars RoboCar was released.[3]
In 2008, ZMP and 3 other Japanese robot companies (Tmsuk Co Ltd, Vstone Co Ltd, and Business Design Laboratory Co Ltd) teamed up in an effort to promote the diffusion of robotic technologies in everyday life.[4] This effort was called the 'Association for Market Creation of the Future Generation Robots'.