News summary:
- NVIDIA introduces Cosmos 3 Edge for on-device vision reasoning and robotic policy deployment on NVIDIA Jetson Thor platforms, and NVIDIA Cosmos-based NVIDIA Metropolis libraries for agentic vision AI development.
- Leading Japanese AI ecosystems AIRoA, FANUC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, NEC, SoftBank Corp., Sony Group Corporation and Yaskawa Electric plan to join the NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition to help build open physical AI models.
- Fujitsu is exploring the development of a collaborative control platform for physical AI, with FANUC, Yaskawa Electric and Kawasaki Heavy Industries integrating NVIDIA technologies, while Japanese manufacturers and leading physical AI, including Enactic, Honda R&D, GROOVE X, Mitsui & Co, OMRON, Shimizu Corporation and Telexistence, are building on NVIDIA’s physical AI stack.
NVIDIA today announced that Japan’s physical AI leaders are building on the NVIDIA Cosmos™, NVIDIA Isaac™, NVIDIA Metropolis and NVIDIA Jetson™ platforms to accelerate the deployment of intelligent machines in manufacturing, mobility, infrastructure and robotics.
NVIDIA also announced Cosmos 3 Edge, a new member of the NVIDIA Cosmos 3 open-world model family that expands NVIDIA Jetson with new capabilities, helping embodied systems see, reason, and locally predict robot actions in real-time.
Physical AI brings intelligence to machines, systems and infrastructure, helping industries automate complex work and augment human expertise. Japan’s strengths in robotics, manufacturing, automotive, telecommunications and industrial technology provide the country with a strong foundation for scaling this next wave of AI.
“The next frontier of AI is in the physical world, and this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Japan,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Japan invented modern manufacturing. Now it has the opportunity to reinvent it for the era of smart industries. Combining its world-leading heritage in manufacturing, precision engineering and robotics with NVIDIA Cosmos, Isaac, Metropolis and Jetson, Japan’s innovators are building the next generation of intelligent machines. We are honored to partner with them on this journey.”
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge supports on-device vision reasoning and robot policies
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge is a 4 billion parameter model based on NVIDIA Nemotron™ that helps robots and visual AI agents understand their environment, reason in real time, and generate robotic actions on NVIDIA Edge computers.
Using the open NVIDIA Cosmos framework, developers can customize the model for specific robots, vehicles, sensors, and environments in about a day. Cosmos 3 Edge is light enough to run on Edge GPUs and quickly retrain specialized world action models. It can be used on NVIDIA RTX™ GPUs, NVIDIA DGX™ systems and NVIDIA Jetson, including the newly announced T2000 and T3000 modules.
To further accelerate the development of vision AI agents, NVIDIA is also announcing new NVIDIA Metropolis libraries and capabilities that help developers use coding agents to build, train, and operate video intelligence systems with Cosmos at least six times faster.
Japan’s leading physical AI companies plan to join the NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition to advance open-world models
NVIDIA is expanding the NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition to Japan, bringing together world modelers, AI developers and physical AI leaders to advance open-world models with Cosmos technologies.
Japan’s leading physical AI ecosystems, including AIRoA, classmethod, Enactic, FANUC, Fujitsu, GROOVE
Coalition members can contribute to and build on the NVIDIA Cosmos platform, which includes open models, data curation libraries, datasets, and frameworks. The resulting world models will help Japanese companies test and optimize physical AI systems before deployment, shortening development cycles in factories, logistics networks, farms, construction sites, hospitals, roads and homes.
NVIDIA Physical AI is driving momentum in Japan’s robotics, manufacturing and smart spaces ecosystem
Fujitsu is exploring physical AI business opportunities with FANUC, Yaskawa Electric and Kawasaki Heavy Industries. The Fujitsu-led initiative aims to build a collaborative control platform that integrates NVIDIA’s physical AI stack to connect digital and physical operations across all industrial sectors.
Built on Cosmos World Foundation models, the Isaac open robotics development platform, NVIDIA Omniverse™ NuRec libraries, and the Newton physics engine, the platform supports AI model development, digital twins, robot learning, simulation-to-real workflows, and pre-deployment validation.
NEC, Hitachi, OMRON and Preferred Networks leverage NVIDIA Cosmos and NVIDIA physical AI technologies to advance world models, industrial AI, and physical AI research and development. SoftBank Corp. develops a physical AI development platform based on NVIDIA Cosmos, NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA Isaac Sim™. The company is also advancing AI-RAN initiatives with NVIDIA AI Aerial, aiming to provide intelligent connectivity to billions of physical AI devices.
Mujin explores NVIDIA Cosmos for autonomous robotics and intelligent industrial automation based on MujinOS, while TRON KK develops manufacturing data workflows for task-specific physical AI models in assembly, picking, inspection and material handling, as well as 3D digitization workflows for factories.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries deploys NVIDIA physical AI technologies in healthcare, shipbuilding, transportation, aerospace and energy; Kubota is exploring Cosmos-based physical AI for autonomous agriculture and smart farming.
Enactic is working on fine-tuning the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T open model for semi-humanoid robots in elderly care. GROOVE X builds Jetson-powered companion robot, LOVOT; and Telexistence uses Isaac and explores Cosmos for retail automation.
Japan’s industry leaders are also using NVIDIA Metropolis to integrate Cosmos-powered vision AI agents into physical operations: Hitachi for smart building operations, OMRON for automated inspection, and Shimizu Corporation for construction safety.
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/japans-robotics-and-manufacturing-leaders-build-on-nvidia-cosmos-to-advance-physical-ai-frontier
