FastLabel and MW Sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for 'Home & Housework AI Robot Development'

FastLabel Inc. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Takeshi Suzuki; hereinafter 'FastLabel'), which supports the development of robot foundation models and domain-specific VLA (Vision-Language-Action) models, and MW Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and CEO: Shuzo Narita; hereinafter 'MW') are pleased to announce that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and commenced collaboration aimed at building large-scale, highly reliable datasets essential for the development of AI robots and robot foundation models that 'automate and replace housework in homes.'

'Physical AI' x 'Housing/Housework' is a field where Japan can aim to be number one in the world. Both companies aim to develop AI robotics that function optimally in the Japanese housing environment and realize a world where housework tasks are automated.

[Stakeholder Comments]

Mr. Shuzo Narita, Representative Director and CEO, MW Inc.

MW aims to create a future home that combines beautiful architecture, AI, and robots: a 'Living Home.' The Physical AI revolution will bring significant changes to housing and lifestyles, and MW will become a pioneer by creating 'Living Homes' that free humanity from housework and allow people to enjoy richer time and space. To build that world, we believe that unique architecture, unique hardware, unique software, unique learning infrastructure, and unique AI data are indispensable. This MoU with FastLabel marks the entry point for this AI data collection and learning infrastructure development. We will build an excellent partnership and co-creation relationship towards achieving overwhelming data volume, high-quality learning infrastructure, and the ideal housing environment.

Professor Tetsuya Ogata, Department of Intermedia Art and Science, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University

In recent years, as generative AI and LLM technologies rapidly evolve, the availability of high-quality, large-scale real-world data has become indispensable for realizing 'Physical AI' and robot foundation models for robots operating in the real world. Particularly for automating housework tasks in Japan's complex housing environments, building diverse and highly reliable datasets that cannot be supplemented by simulation alone is the key challenge.

This collaboration between FastLabel, which possesses extensive know-how in data construction, and MW, which advocates for the future home 'Living Home,' is a groundbreaking initiative to collect and accumulate unique real-world data unlike any before. I strongly expect that the foundation models born from this partnership will become a new winning formula for Japan's robotics industry and serve as a pioneering example that opens up a rich future lifestyle, freeing humanity from housework.

Mr. Takeshi Suzuki, President and CEO, FastLabel Inc.

What MW envisions is not a 'housework robot' but a worldview called 'Living Home,' and the data generated from it holds unique value unparalleled by any other. FastLabel is very pleased to be able to accompany them from a data perspective as a supporting player in co-creating that worldview. Together, we will build a pioneering example that demonstrates Japan's winning formula, spreading the new industrial domain of Physical AI x Housing from Japan to the world.

[About FastLabel]

FastLabel Inc. is engaged in building data infrastructure that supports Data-centric AI development, providing end-to-end support from data collection/generation to annotation, model development, and DataOps construction. In recent years, it has also focused on the Physical AI domain, including robotics, and is promoting the construction of data pipelines that support the development of robot foundation models and VLA models.

Company Name: FastLabel Inc.

Location: Shinjuku Sumitomo Building 24F, 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo

Representative: President and CEO Takeshi Suzuki

Business: Provision of professional services and products supporting Data-centric AI development

URL: https://fastlabel.ai/service/robotics

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