Shin Nippon Koki SNK machine tools. They have an office in Japan and in Las Vegas. Has nothing to do with the SNK from the video game world (nothing to do with the neogeo). There are quite a few companies with the SNK moniker, including a real estate company, tax company, rolling bearings company, trucking, consulting, development, snk logistics, and many, many more. .
Company are allowed to use the same Branding as long as they don't do Business in the same industry. That SNK robot probably just come from another SNK company with no affiliation at all with the video games SNK.
The clue is in the name. I'm assuming the Duct Eye is a remote-controlled vehicle used for checking out ducts too small for a human to check. The fact that the picture of it 'in action' shows it inside a section of duct I would say is proof of this.
You can't use name which are trademarked worldwide, two company can share the same under those circontansce:
Apple Corps founded 1968 - when the Steves would have still been in high school (Jobs was 13). Sued Apple Computers in 1978 - won settlement in 1981. Sued Apple Computers again in 1989, claiming they breached former settlement. Won. Sued Apple Computers again in 1991 over Chimes. won. Sued Apple Computers yet again in 2003 for breach of contract with iTunes (Apple Corps had the rights to the name on music whereas Apple Computers had the rights to the name on goods and services used to play or deliver musical content, excluding physical media). The case settled in Apple Computers' favour in 2006. Not the best example there, as you can see ;-) That said, the issues were mainly because of the overlap... although the initial one was purely over the name.
I think that company which makes the robots and industrial equipment also make PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards) as I've seen several pieces of Japanese equipment with boards marked "SNK" which were completely unrelated to our beloved "Shin Nihon Kikaku"
