en.Wedoany.com Reported - Fujitsu has begun collaborating with Japanese robot manufacturers Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries to jointly explore the development and deployment of physical AI in manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare. This collaboration plans to integrate Nvidia's physical AI technology, aiming to develop a collaborative control platform that connects digital systems with physical devices such as robots.
Fujitsu stated that this collaboration aims to accelerate the adoption of physical AI while helping to address challenges such as labor shortages, an aging workforce, and increasingly intense global competition. These companies plan to explore applications across multiple industries. In manufacturing, the platform will be used to optimize production plans and enable autonomous adaptation to changing factory conditions. In logistics and retail, Fujitsu aims to automate material handling by integrating logistics planning with real-time sales and inventory data. The partners are also targeting the healthcare sector, where robots can autonomously transport medications and medical specimens, as well as assist with patient reception and guidance.
Beyond these applications, Fujitsu also plans to develop an open, autonomous collaborative control platform that integrates the artificial intelligence, robotics, simulation, and data analysis technologies of the participating companies. The company stated that the platform is designed to promote interoperability between different robots and devices while addressing cybersecurity, operational resilience, and data protection issues. As part of the collaboration, Fujitsu will use the Nvidia Cosmos foundational model to enhance simulations of real-world environments, and adopt the Nvidia Omniverse library, the Nvidia Isaac robot platform, and the Newton physics engine to accelerate robot learning, simulation, and Sim2Real workflows.
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, said: "Physical AI is the next industrial revolution—and it will happen in Japan. Fujitsu, Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries are companies that taught the world how to make things. Together with Nvidia's full-stack physical AI platform, they will teach the world's machines to think, move, and work alongside humans—across factories, hospitals, and cities." Takahito Tokita, CEO of Fujitsu, stated that this collaboration combines the robotics expertise of the three manufacturers with Fujitsu's digital technologies, aiming to create "a new social infrastructure where humans and robots can work collaboratively across a wide range of industries."
Fujitsu stated that these companies will now formulate a roadmap for technology development and commercialization, with a long-term goal of expanding the global deployment of physical AI and strengthening Japan's position in the robotics industry.
