California (GNP): NVIDIA announced that leading Japanese robotics, manufacturing, and technology companies are building on its Cosmos, Isaac, Metropolis, and Jetson platforms to accelerate the deployment of intelligent machines across manufacturing, mobility, infrastructure, and robotics.
The company also unveiled Cosmos 3 Edge, a new addition to its Cosmos 3 open world model family, designed to bring frontier capabilities to NVIDIA Jetson devices and help embodied systems see, reason in real time and predict robot actions locally.
Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive officer of NVIDIA, said the next frontier of AI lies in the physical world, describing it as a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Japan. He said Japan, having invented modern manufacturing, now has the chance to reinvent it for the age of intelligent industries, and that by combining its manufacturing heritage, precision engineering and robotics expertise with NVIDIA’s Cosmos, Isaac, Metropolis and Jetson platforms, Japanese innovators are building the next generation of intelligent machines.
Cosmos 3 Edge is a four-billion-parameter model built on NVIDIA’s Nemotron architecture that helps robots and vision AI agents understand their surroundings, reason in real time and generate robot actions on NVIDIA edge computers. Using the open Cosmos framework, developers can adapt the model for specific robots, vehicles, sensors and environments in approximately a day.
The model is lightweight enough to run on edge GPUs and can be deployed across NVIDIA RTX GPUs, NVIDIA DGX systems and NVIDIA Jetson, including the newly announced T2000 and T3000 modules. NVIDIA also introduced new Metropolis libraries and skills intended to help developers use coding agents to build, train and operate video intelligence systems with Cosmos up to six times faster.
As part of the announcement, NVIDIA said it is expanding its Cosmos Coalition to Japan, bringing together world model builders, AI developers and physical AI leaders to advance open world models using Cosmos technologies. Companies intending to join the coalition include AIRoA, classmethod, Enactic, FANUC, Fujitsu, GROOVE X, Hitachi, Honda R&D, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, Mitsui & Co., Mitsubishi Corp., Mujin, NEC, Preferred Networks, SoftBank Corp., Sony Group Corporation, Telexistence, TIER IV, TRON K.K., Turing and Yaskawa Electric.
NVIDIA said coalition members will be able to contribute to and build on the Cosmos platform, including its open models, data curation libraries, datasets and frameworks, with the resulting world models expected to help Japanese companies test and optimise physical AI systems before deployment across factories, logistics networks, farms, construction sites, hospitals, roads and homes.
Several companies detailed specific initiatives. Fujitsu is exploring a collaborative control platform for physical AI together with FANUC, Yaskawa Electric and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, aimed at bridging digital and physical operations across industrial sectors. The platform is being built with Cosmos world foundation models, the open Isaac robotics development platform, NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec libraries and the Newton physics engine, and is intended to support AI model development, digital twins, robot learning, simulation-to-real workflows and pre-deployment validation.
NEC, Hitachi, OMRON and Preferred Networks are using Cosmos and related NVIDIA physical AI technologies to advance world models, industrial AI and physical AI research and development. SoftBank Corp. is developing a physical AI platform built on Cosmos, Omniverse and Isaac Sim, while also advancing AI-RAN initiatives using NVIDIA AI Aerial aimed at delivering intelligent connectivity for physical AI devices.
Mujin is exploring Cosmos for autonomous robotics and industrial automation powered by MujinOS, and TRON K.K. is developing manufacturing data workflows for task-specific physical AI models in assembly, picking, inspection and material handling, along with factory 3D digitisation workflows.
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Kawasaki Heavy Industries is applying NVIDIA physical AI technologies across healthcare, shipbuilding, transportation, aerospace and energy, while Kubota is exploring Cosmos-based physical AI for autonomous agriculture and smart farming.
Enactic is fine-tuning NVIDIA’s Isaac GR00T open model for elder-care semi-humanoid robots, GROOVE X is building Jetson-powered companion robots called LOVOT, and Telexistence is applying Isaac technology and exploring Cosmos for retail automation. Hitachi, OMRON and Shimizu Corporation are also using NVIDIA Metropolis to bring Cosmos-powered vision AI agents into smart-building operations, automated inspection and construction safety, respectively.
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