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NVIDIA has partnered with Japanese companies, including Fanuc and Yaskawa Electric, to support robotics and artificial intelligence development. The chipmaker announced the collaboration during a media event in Tokyo on Thursday. NVIDIA is also expanding the use of its Nemotron open models across Japanese companies, startups, and research institutions.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said AI could make industrial robots more flexible and easier to deploy. “With AI, robots will become smart, easily adaptable and accessible,” Huang said during the Tokyo event.
Fanuc and Yaskawa Electric are among Japan’s largest industrial robotics manufacturers. Both companies supply robots and automation systems to factories worldwide. Their work covers automotive production, electronics, logistics, and industrial equipment.
The partnerships place NVIDIA’s computing systems and AI software within Japan’s established robotics sector. NVIDIA did not provide financial terms or a detailed rollout schedule for the projects.
Meanwhile, Huang met executives from Japan’s chip and technology industries during his visit. He appeared with leaders from memory chipmaker Kioxia and semiconductor equipment producer Tokyo Electron.
Huang also attended an event hosted by Sega Sammy in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. His public appearances attracted visitors from Japan and Taiwan. Still, NVIDIA’s business announcements focused on robotics, local AI models, and enterprise applications.
NVIDIA said several Japanese organizations are using its Nemotron open models, datasets, and software tools. The systems allow developers to build AI models for Japanese language tasks and industry-specific work.
The Institute of Science Tokyo used NVIDIA datasets and NeMo software to develop its Swallow model family. These models support Japanese language processing, reasoning, coding, and mathematics. Companies are using Swallow for financial document translation and asset management reports.
SB Intuitions, SoftBank’s generative AI research company, trained its Sarashina models with NVIDIA technology. Japan’s Digital Agency selected Sarashina3 mini for specialized AI projects. SoftBank also built a telecom model for automated network operations.
Stockmark released a Japanese document-understanding model based on the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni. The company is also developing business knowledge systems for manufacturing, energy, and chemical companies.
Additionally, Sakana AI is adding Nemotron to its Fugu model-routing platform. Fugu selects different AI models for separate tasks based on accuracy, speed, and operating cost.
Japanese companies are also using Nemotron for customer service, research, remote operations, and workplace automation. Avatarin is developing Japanese-language AI agents for customer conversations and remote-presence systems.
The company uses NVIDIA HGX B300 systems for private AI processing. It also uses NVIDIA Jetson hardware for digital avatar services at airports and other locations.
ENEOS Holdings is applying Nemotron tools to energy and materials research. Its researchers combine document search, image analysis, language processing, and molecular simulations. The work covers cooling fluids, catalysts, and other industrial materials.
NTT Data used NVIDIA’s Japanese training dataset to improve its tsuzumi 2 language model. The company is also examining a multi-agent system that can assign tasks to different AI models.
Hitachi is developing physical AI systems with NVIDIA Nemotron and Cosmos open models. The project connects information technology with factory and infrastructure operations.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron models with open weights, datasets, and development instructions. Companies can customize the models 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.
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