Jul 16, 2026, 23:45 UTC
Nvidia Corp. announces that more than 20 Japanese companies intend to join the Nvidia Cosmos Coalition, including FANUC Corp., Yaskawa Electric Corp., Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., NEC Corp., SoftBank Corp., Sony Group Corp., Honda R&D Co. Ltd., and Preferred Networks Inc.
Jul 16, 2026, 09:16 UTC
ABEJA is collaborating with three major Japanese robot manufacturers (Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric) on a NEDO project to build a dataset for a VTLA foundation model using tactile and visual data from manufacturing sites.
Source:Jul 16, 2026, 03:40 UTC
Fujitsu announced a partnership with Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries to implement physical AI robots, with technical support from Nvidia.
Jul 15, 2026, 05:39 UTC
Yaskawa Electric announced the development of a system integrating Google's generative AI with its industrial robots, enabling operation through rough verbal instructions.
Source:Jul 13, 2026, 11:45 UTC
Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 1.92% to 67,242 on Monday, July 13, 2026, amid a broader sell-off in Asian tech stocks.
Source:Jul 13, 2026, 06:43 UTC
SoftBank and Yaskawa Electric announced a joint demonstration experiment to develop a robot that can grasp soft objects using SoftBank's cloud computing resources and Yaskawa's single-arm robot, leveraging AI for autonomous control.
Source:Jul 13, 2026, 02:30 UTC
Yaskawa Electric reported a 22% decline in net profit for March-May, due to a sharp drop in robot profits.
Source:Jul 10, 2026, 07:18 UTC
Yaskawa Electric reported a 22% year-on-year decline in net profit to 5.4 billion yen for the March-May 2026 period, with revenue up 11% to 138.9 billion yen and operating profit down 19% to 8.4 billion yen.
Jul 3, 2026, 07:56 UTC
Yaskawa Electric has launched AI-driven industrial robots, including the Motoman Next developed with Nvidia, at its new factory in Kitakyushu, Japan.
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