Fujitsu to explore physical AI development and implementation across industries with FANUC

• 18 Jul 2026
• TM Team
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Fujitsu Limited announced that it has begun exploring business opportunities in the field of physical AI with leading robotics companies FANUC CORPORATION, YASKAWA Electric Corporation and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. This initiative aims to promote the development of a collaborative control platform that ensures sovereignty by bridging the digital and physical worlds and integrating NVIDIA’s open physical AI technologies. By accelerating the societal implementation of physical AI across various industrial sectors—including manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare— Fujitsu seeks to realize a society where humans and robots coexist and collaborate, and strengthen Japan’s industrial competitiveness.

In recent years, various industrial sectors—particularly manufacturing—have faced growing challenges such as labor shortages due to Japan’s declining birthrate and aging population, a decline in the number of skilled technicians, and intensifying global competition. To resolve these challenges and achieve sustainable growth, the promotion of digital transformation (DX) is essential. In particular, expectations are rising for physical AI, where AI recognizes and analyzes real-world information and executes it as physical actions.

Physical AI enables the automation of tasks, improved productivity, stable quality, and the creation of new services by allowing robots and various pieces of equipment to assess situations and autonomously determine and execute optimal actions. However, realizing this requires advanced robot control technology and an AI infrastructure that leverages high-quality on-site data, as well as a collaborative control platform that integrates these elements to bridge the digital and physical worlds. Yet, there are limits to what a single company can achieve in terms of development and widespread adoption.

Given this situation, as a technology company, Fujitsu will promote the societal implementation of physical AI through collaboration with leading robotics companies—FANUC, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries—while simultaneously working to standardize and open up the collaborative control platform.

Starting with business discussions with these companies, Fujitsu will formulate a roadmap for concrete technology development and business expansion. As the robotics market expands, Fujitsu is confident that establishing a framework to provide an AI infrastructure—leveraging Japan’s world-class robot control technology and high-quality on-site data—will be a crucial step toward Japan leading the global robotics market. Through the societal implementation of physical AI, Fujitsu will contribute to the realization of a safe and prosperous society where humans and robots coexist and collaborate, as well as to the strengthening of Japan’s industrial competitiveness.