Japan's Robotics and Manufacturing Leaders Forge the Frontier of Physical AI with NVIDIA Cosmos

News Overview:

NVIDIA announced Cosmos 3 Edge, enabling vision reasoning and robotics policy deployment on the NVIDIA Jetson Thor platform, and the NVIDIA Metropolis library built on NVIDIA Cosmos for agent-based vision AI development.

Leading Japanese industrial companies including AIRoA, FANUC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Komatsu, Kubota, NEC, SoftBank Corp., and Yaskawa Electric have expressed their intent to join the NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition, supporting the development of cutting-edge open physical AI models.

Fujitsu has begun business exploration with FANUC, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries to develop a coordinated control infrastructure for physical AI, incorporating NVIDIA technologies. Japanese manufacturing and physical AI leaders such as Enactic, Honda R&D, GROOVE X, Mitsui & Co., Omron, Shimizu Corporation, Sony Group Corporation, and Telexistence are advancing development using NVIDIA’s physical AI stack.

Tokyo — July 16, 2026 — NVIDIA today announced that a diverse group of Japanese companies driving physical AI are leveraging NVIDIA’s physical AI stack—including NVIDIA Cosmos™, NVIDIA Isaac™, NVIDIA Metropolis, and NVIDIA Jetson™—to accelerate the deployment of intelligent machines across manufacturing, mobility, infrastructure, and robotics.

NVIDIA also unveiled Cosmos 3 Edge, a new model in the advanced open world model suite NVIDIA Cosmos 3. Cosmos 3 Edge enables embedded systems on NVIDIA Jetson to see, reason, and locally predict robot actions in real time.

Physical AI brings intelligence to machines, facilities, and infrastructure, helping industries automate complex tasks and extend human expertise. Japan, with strengths in robotics, manufacturing, mobility, communications, and industrial technology, possesses a strong foundation to expand this next wave of AI across the physical world.

Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said: "The next frontier of AI is the physical world, and this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Japan. Japan created today’s manufacturing industry. Now is the time to rebuild it for the era of intelligent industry. By combining Japan’s world-class legacy in manufacturing, precision engineering, and robotics with NVIDIA’s Cosmos, Isaac, Metropolis, and Jetson, Japanese innovators are building the next generation of intelligent machines. NVIDIA is honored to collaborate with them on this journey."

NVIDIA Announces Cosmos 3 Edge for On-Device Vision Reasoning and Robotics Policy

NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge is a 4-billion-parameter model built on NVIDIA Nemotron™, helping robots and vision AI agents understand their surroundings, reason in real time, and decide their next actions on the spot.

Using the open NVIDIA Cosmos framework, developers can adapt the model to specific robots, vehicles, sensors, and environments in as little as one day. Lightweight enough to run on edge GPUs and rapidly post-train for world action models, Cosmos 3 Edge can be deployed on NVIDIA RTX™ GPUs, NVIDIA DGX™ systems, NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ GPUs, NVIDIA Jetson, and the newly announced Jetson T2000 and T3000 modules.

Japan’s Physical AI Ecosystem Leaders Express Intent to Join Cosmos Coalition to Advance Open World Models

NVIDIA is expanding the Cosmos Coalition to Japan, uniting world model builders, AI developers, and physical AI leaders to advance open world models using Cosmos technology.

Companies leading Japan’s physical AI ecosystem—including AIRoA, Classmethod, Enactic, FANUC, Fujitsu, GROOVE X, Hitachi, Honda R&D, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, Mitsui & Co., Mitsubishi Corporation, Mujin, NEC, Preferred Networks, SoftBank Corp., Sony Group Corporation, Telexistence, Tier IV, TRON, Turing, and Yaskawa Electric—have expressed their intent to join the Cosmos Coalition.

Coalition members can contribute to and build upon the NVIDIA Cosmos platform, which features open models, data curation libraries, datasets, and frameworks. The world models built on this platform will enable Japanese companies to verify and optimize physical AI systems before deployment, shortening development cycles across factories, logistics networks, farms, construction sites, hospitals, roads, and homes.

NVIDIA’s Physical AI Powers Momentum Across Japan’s Robotics, Manufacturing, and Smart Spaces Ecosystem

Fujitsu announced it has begun business exploration with FANUC, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries toward societal implementation of physical AI. Fujitsu-led, this initiative will utilize a coordinated control platform designed to bridge digital and physical operations across industries.

The platform will be built using libraries such as the NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation model, NVIDIA Omniverse™ NuRec library, NVIDIA Isaac open platform, and Newton physics engine. These will support AI model development, digital twins, robot learning, Sim2Real workflows, and pre-deployment verification.

NEC, Hitachi, Omron, and Preferred Networks are leveraging NVIDIA Cosmos and NVIDIA’s physical AI technologies to develop world foundation models, industrial AI,