Japan’s robotics foundation-model talent build continues
AIRoA advertised work involving humanoid fleets, GPU infrastructure, tactile manipulation and large-scale evaluation for vision-language-action models.
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Japan’s Noetra positions sovereign physical AI as national infrastructure
Government-backed Noetra plans national AI infrastructure and a Japanese physical-AI model supported by major industrial groups.
Nvidia deepens partnerships with Japanese robotics companies
Nvidia announced collaboration with Japanese robotics firms and linked national AI infrastructure directly to physical-AI development.
Noetra begins full-scale development of a Japan-made multimodal foundation model
Noetra, Sony, SoftBank, NEC, Honda, AIST, and partners started full-scale development of a sovereign multimodal model.
