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Altinay Robot Group unveiled Türkiye's first fully domestically developed industrial robots, the SR40 and SR80, at SAHA 2026.
The ceremony, attended by Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacir and Defense Industries Secretariat (SSB) head Haluk Gorgun, marked a milestone in Ankara's ambition to grow industrial robot usage from 30,000 to 200,000 units by 2030.
"Digital transformation must absolutely be implemented with domestic and national technologies. Therefore I believe this project will allow us to carry out the digital transformation of Turkish industry in a way that takes our national needs into account in terms of cybersecurity," Kacir said at the launch ceremony.
The SR40 has a 40-kilogram payload capacity and the SR80 an 80-kilogram payload capacity. Both are part of the GRASS industrial robot family under Altinay Robot Technologies, featuring wide working envelopes, high repeatability precision and an optimized motion control architecture that meets global standards.
They are designed for use across automotive, food, metalworking and heavy industry sectors.
The Turkish minister noted that Ankara currently has approximately 30,000 industrial robots in use and that the 2030 Industry and Technology Strategy set a target of exceeding 200,000.
He also linked the project to closing what he described as a $12 billion potential foreign trade deficit in technology, and said a $1 billion allocation within the HIT 30 Program targets high-technology investments through 2030.
"The key valuable element behind Turkish defense industry's global successes is that we have been able to build an R&D, innovation and production intelligence that can work together like a distributed neural network. Thanks to this, we complete R&D processes faster than the rest of the world and bring platforms, systems and subsystems to serial production faster than the rest of the world," Kacir said.
Altinay Robot Group Chairman Hakan Altinay said the company had been working in the field for approximately 35 years and that, under the HAMLE Program launched in 2020, it had developed not only the robots themselves but the full vertical technology stack, servo motors, reducers, and motor drivers, using domestic capabilities.
He announced that a 30,000-square-meter production facility in the Tuzla Industrial Free Zone would soon begin producing industrial robots at national scale.
"If there are no setbacks, Türkiye will soon receive news of the establishment of a new robot industry and industrial infrastructure," Altinay said.
Gorgun said Altinay was involved in multiple valuable defense projects delivered on time and within budget, and praised the ministry's support programs for sustaining the ecosystem, from prime contractors to SMEs.
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