According to the original definition of mechatronics that the Yasakawa Electric Company proposed and the definitions that have since appeared, many engineering products designed and manufactured in the last thirty years that integrate mechanical and electrical systems can be classified as mechatronic systems . In trademark application documents, Yasakawa defined mechatronics in this way: The word mechatronics is composed of “mecha” from mechanism and the “tronics” from electronics. In other words, technologies and developed products will be incorporating electronics more and more intimately and organically into mechanisms, making it impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins
