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Its agreed merger with NTN will create the world's largest bearing maker (~$11.1B combined revenue, closing 2027), with both companies naming physical-AI robots as the priority battleground, and it signed a Delta Electronics MOU (May 2026) for joint actuator modules. With more than 70 bearings per humanoid, this is a components-scale play against JTEKT, SKF, and IKO.","sub_category":"Actuation","signals_total":17,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/nsk","title":"NSK · humanoids, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"NSK is contributing its precision-parts technology to the joint development and testing of humanoid robot components with Atom, including components relevant to robotic motion and actuation. Humanoids 100 rank 14 (score 83) 17 signals and 14 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}