Nvidia partners with Fujitsu, Fanuc and others on Japan physical AI push

Nvidia ↗ 2.87% CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a broad set of partnerships with Japan's leading industrial and robotics companies during a week of announcements in Tokyo, positioning the chipmaker at the center of Japan's push to bring artificial intelligence into factories, hospitals, and city streets.

The centerpiece announcement, made on Thursday, involves Fujitsu, Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries collaborating on a physical AI industrial platform built on Nvidia's open technologies. The initiative aims to develop a collaborative control platform bridging digital and physical worlds across manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare sectors.global+2

Expanding Toyota Collaboration

Nvidia also expanded its partnership with Toyota to advance physical AI across automotive, robotics, and urban systems. The collaboration spans next-generation vehicles with L2++ driver-assistance capabilities built on Nvidia's DRIVE AGX platform, factory simulation using Nvidia Omniverse, and a multimodal vision language model developed by Woven by Toyota for urban traffic intelligence.blogs.nvidia

"Physical AI will bring intelligence to every moving machine from cars, robots and trucks to the cities and factories they operate in," said Rishi Dhall, Nvidia's vice president of automotive.blogs.nvidia

Kawasaki Heavy Industries is also applying Nvidia technologies to healthcare robotics, planning to use Nvidia Holoscan, Isaac for Healthcare, and Cosmos to develop surgical support functions, nursing assistant robots, and hospital transport systems.blogs.nvidia

New Edge AI Hardware

Alongside the partnerships, Nvidia introduced the Jetson T3000 and T2000 modules, new edge AI hardware based on its Thor architecture designed to bring physical AI capabilities to mass-market robotics. The T3000 delivers 865 FP4 teraflops of AI compute in a compact form factor roughly half the size and power of the existing T5000, while the T2000 offers 400 FP4 teraflops as an entry point for autonomous mobile robots and industrial manipulators. Both modules are scheduled for availability in the first quarter of 2027.blogs.nvidia+2

Fujitsu stated the initiative aims to "realize a society where humans and robots coexist and collaborate, and strengthen Japan's industrial competitiveness". The announcements come as Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform enters full-scale manufacturing, with shipments to partners beginning in the second half of 2026.linkedin+2