NVIDIA has announced partnerships with major Japanese robotics manufacturers, including Fanuc and Yaskawa Electric, to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence and robotics. The chipmaker revealed the collaborations during a media event in Tokyo on Thursday, signaling a deepening commitment to Japan’s industrial automation sector.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang emphasized that AI can make industrial robots smarter, more adaptable, and easier to deploy. “With AI, robots will become smart, easily adaptable and accessible,” Huang said at the Tokyo event. Fanuc and Yaskawa Electric are among Japan’s leading industrial robotics suppliers, providing automation systems to factories worldwide in sectors such as automotive production, electronics, logistics, and industrial equipment.
The partnerships integrate NVIDIA’s computing platforms and AI software into Japan’s established robotics ecosystem. Financial terms and specific rollout schedules were not disclosed. During his visit, Huang also met with executives from memory chipmaker Kioxia and semiconductor equipment producer Tokyo Electron, and attended an event hosted by Sega Sammy in Tokyo’s Akihabara district.
Japanese Organizations Adopt NVIDIA’s Nemotron Models
NVIDIA announced that several Japanese organizations are using its Nemotron open models, datasets, and software tools to build AI systems tailored for Japanese language tasks and industry-specific applications. The Institute of Science Tokyo leveraged NVIDIA datasets and NeMo software to develop the Swallow model family, which supports Japanese language processing, reasoning, coding, and mathematics. Companies are applying Swallow for financial document translation and asset management reports.
SB Intuitions, SoftBank’s generative AI research arm, trained its Sarashina models with NVIDIA technology. Japan’s Digital Agency selected Sarashina3 mini for specialized AI projects, while SoftBank built a telecom model for automated network operations. Stockmark released a Japanese document-understanding model based on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni and is developing business knowledge systems for manufacturing, energy, and chemical sectors. Sakana AI is integrating Nemotron into its Fugu model-routing platform, which selects different AI models based on accuracy, speed, and cost.
Enterprise Applications Expand Across Industries
Japanese companies are deploying Nemotron for customer service, research, remote operations, and workplace automation. Avatarin is developing Japanese-language AI agents for customer conversations and remote-presence systems, using NVIDIA HGX B300 systems for private AI processing and NVIDIA Jetson hardware for digital avatar services at airports and other locations. ENEOS Holdings applies Nemotron tools to energy and materials research, combining document search, image analysis, language processing, and molecular simulations for cooling fluids, catalysts, and other industrial materials.
NTT Data used NVIDIA’s Japanese training dataset to improve its tsuzumi 2 language model and is exploring a multi-agent system that assigns tasks to different AI models. Hitachi is developing physical AI systems with NVIDIA Nemotron and Cosmos open models, connecting information technology with factory and infrastructure operations. NVIDIA releases Nemotron models with open weights, datasets, and development instructions, allowing companies to customize and run them on private systems or cloud platforms. The models are available through Hugging Face, ModelScope, OpenRouter, NVIDIA’s developer platform, and selected cloud providers.