Japan's Robotics and Manufacturing Leaders Build on NVIDIA Cosmos to Advance Physical AI Frontier
News Summary:
NVIDIA introduces Cosmos 3 Edge for on-device vision reasoning and robot policy deployment on NVIDIA Jetson Thor platforms, and NVIDIA Metropolis libraries built on NVIDIA Cosmos for agentic vision AI development.
Japan's physical AI ecosystem leaders AIRoA, FANUC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, NEC, SoftBank Corp., Sony Group Corporation and Yaskawa Electric intend to join the NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition to help build open frontier physical AI models.
Fujitsu is exploring the development of a collaborative control platform for physical AI, with FANUC, Yaskawa Electric and Kawasaki Heavy Industries integrating NVIDIA technologies, while Japanese manufacturers and physical AI leaders including Enactic, Honda R&D, GROOVE X, Mitsui & Co, OMRON, Shimizu Corporation and Telexistence are building on NVIDIA's physical AI stack.
TOKYO, July 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA today announced that Japan's physical AI leaders are building on the NVIDIA Cosmos™, NVIDIA Isaac™, NVIDIA Metropolis and NVIDIA Jetson™ platforms to accelerate the deployment of intelligent machines across manufacturing, mobility, infrastructure and robotics.
NVIDIA also announced Cosmos 3 Edge, a new addition to the NVIDIA Cosmos 3 open world model family, that brings frontier capabilities to NVIDIA Jetson, helping embodied systems see, reason in real time and predict robot actions locally.
Physical AI is bringing intelligence into machines, facilities and infrastructure, helping industries automate complex work and extend human expertise. Japan's strengths in robotics, manufacturing, automotive, telecommunications and industrial technology give it a powerful foundation for scaling this next wave of AI.
"The next frontier of AI is in the physical world, and this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Japan," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Japan invented modern manufacturing. Now, it has the opportunity to reinvent it for the age of intelligent industries. By combining its world-leading heritage in manufacturing, precision engineering and robotics with NVIDIA Cosmos, Isaac, Metropolis and Jetson, Japan's innovators are building the next generation of intelligent machines. We are honored to partner with them on this journey."
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge Powers On-Device Vision Reasoning and Robot Policy
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge is a 4-billion-parameter model built on NVIDIA Nemotron™ that helps robots and vision AI agents understand their surroundings, reason in real time and generate robot actions on NVIDIA edge computers.