His third arm isn’t just an idea, though. It’s a Yaskawa industrial robot that he was able to source for pretty cheap, but it was missing a few parts that he’s been slowly replacing.

Astellas Pharma Inc. is setting up a joint venture with Yaskawa Electric Corp. to develop a new cell production platform using Yaskawa’s dual-arm humanoid robot called Maholo.

The goal is to use a dual-arm robot dubbed Maholo, developed by Yaskawa subsidiary Robotic Biology Institute, to create a new cell therapy manufacturing platform aimed at linking early-stage ...