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General-purpose, manufacturing and business-use mechanical apparatus assembly workers

How to become an Industrial Robot Installer

Also called: Industrial Robot Assembler and Installer, Industrial Robot Setup Technician

Installs industrial robots on production lines in factories and elsewhere, setting up and adjusting machines, doing the initial setup and building the systems needed to run them.

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How to become one

No particular qualifications or level of education are needed to start, but new graduates usually graduate in mechanical, electrical, electronic or information engineering from a university, kosen (college of technology) or senmon gakko (vocational college), join a robot system integrator or a company with a robot system integration department, and are assigned to robot-related work. At large companies, new graduates make up almost half of all hires and mid-career hires about half that number. At small and medium companies, new graduate and mid-career hiring are about equal. Anyone working with industrial robots (except those with a rated output under 80 W) must take special safety and health training for teaching and inspecting industrial robots under Article 39 of the Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health. This applies not only to jobs installing and maintaining robots but also to companies that bring in robot systems. As well as knowledge of robotics, the main work is robot system integration, so you need to communicate well with client companies, for example when proposing systems and finding out users' needs, so you can make sound proposals and designs. The industry is chronically short of people, and once you move up you are also expected to guide and train newer staff.

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How do I become an Industrial Robot Installer?

No particular qualifications or level of education are needed to start, but new graduates usually graduate in mechanical, electrical, electronic or information engineering from a university, kosen (college of technology) or senmon gakko (vocational college), join a robot system integrator or a company with a robot system integration department, and are assigned to robot-related work. At large companies, new graduates make up almost half of all hires and mid-career hires about half that number. At small and medium companies, new graduate and mid-career hiring are about equal. Anyone working with industrial robots (except those with a rated output under 80 W) must take special safety and health training for teaching and inspecting industrial robots under Article 39 of the Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health. This applies not only to jobs installing and maintaining robots but also to companies that bring in robot systems. As well as knowledge of robotics, the main work is robot system integration, so you need to communicate well with client companies, for example when proposing systems and finding out users' needs, so you can make sound proposals and designs. The industry is chronically short of people, and once you move up you are also expected to guide and train newer staff.

How much does an Industrial Robot Installer earn in Japan?

Average annual income in the private sector, bonus included, is ¥5,225,100 (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare). The figure is for the wage survey group General-purpose, manufacturing and business-use mechanical apparatus assembly workers, which covers several jobs.

Do you need a degree to become an Industrial Robot Installer?

Usually not. In this job's census occupation group, only 17% of workers are university graduates.

Will AI change the work of an Industrial Robot Installer?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

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Sources: JILPT Occupational Information Database download data via job tag (解説系 ver.7.01 and 簡易版数値系 ver.7.00, downloaded 4 October 2026), processed by Peernovo; MHLW, Basic Survey on Wage Structure 2025; Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2020 Population Census; MEXT, School Basic Survey 2025; MHLW, Employment Referrals for General Workers (Hello Work statistics). Figures processed by Peernovo. English job names, translations and the matching of jobs to statistical groups, schools and degree fields by Peernovo.

Updated 4 October 2026