NVIDIA and Japan Bring AI and Robotics to Every Industry
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NVIDIA announced comprehensive collaborations to bring AI and robotics to every industry in Japan during a visit by CEO Jensen Huang. Huang met with developers at the ‘Build-a-Claw’ event in Tokyo to showcase the future of physical AI.
Key developments include:
Partnership with Japanese Robotics Companies
NVIDIA partnered with Japanese robotics giants including Fujitsu, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, FANUC, and Yaskawa. These companies will move physical AI from national ambition to the manufacturing floor. Huang met with Japanese leaders at a dinner to discuss this transformation.
Japanese Government AI Initiative
Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Ryosei Akazawa launched the ‘Physical AI Initiative’ together with NVIDIA. This government-backed initiative will combine manufacturing expertise with real-world industrial data to develop open multimodal foundation models for AI agents, digital twins, robotics, and physical AI applications.
AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences
Japanese pharmaceutical leaders are uniting around AI-powered drug discovery. The Tokyo-1 platform brings together companies including Astellas, Daiichi Sankyo, and Ono Pharmaceuticals. Astellas has deployed nearly all BioNeMo NIM microservices.
Physical AI in Automotive and Cities
NVIDIA and Toyota are expanding their partnership to advance physical AI across automotive, robotics, and cities. Toyota is developing vehicles with advanced driver-assistance capabilities (L2++) on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX.
AI in Financial Services
Mizuho plans to build what is expected to be the largest on-premises AI factory in Japan’s financial industry, starting with NVIDIA DGX B200 systems. SMBC Group’s core IT company, Japan Research Institute (JRI), deployed an AI factory to transform financial data into intelligence using NVIDIA Nemotron open models.
Gaming Sector
NVIDIA and SEGA are celebrating 30 years of collaboration by bringing VIRTUA FIGHTER CROSSROADS and future SEGA titles to the new superchip RTX Spark. The celebration took place at the original SEGA Arcade in Akihabara.
Quantum and AI for Science
NVIDIA and RIKEN operate the ROQUO supercomputer with 540 Blackwell GPUs accessed through the GB200 NVL4 platform. This system is integrated with on-premise quantum computers at RIKEN facilities to support quantum-HPC workloads.
NVIDIA’s initiative in Japan aims to create a new economic engine by bringing together the country’s manufacturing expertise, real-world industrial data, and global technology leaders. Huang stated, ‘Japan has been very good at precision manufacturing and large-scale manufacturing, and now we have AI. You can combine the two technologies and create robotics.‘