Japanese Robotics Leaders Adopt Nvidia Computing Platforms to Launch a New Era of Autonomous Factories
Nvidia introduced Cosmos 3 Edge for on-device vision reasoning and robot policy deployment on Jetson Thor platforms, alongside Metropolis libraries built on Cosmos for agentic vision AI development. This technology brings frontier capabilities to Jetson, helping embodied systems see, reason in real time, and predict robot actions locally. Physical AI brings intelligence into machines, facilities, and infrastructure to automate complex work and extend human expertise. Japan possesses a powerful foundation for scaling this next wave due to its strengths in robotics, manufacturing, automotive, telecommunications, and industrial technology.
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang stated that the next frontier of AI is in the physical world, presenting a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Japan to reinvent modern manufacturing for the age of intelligent industries. Cosmos 3 Edge is a 4-billion-parameter model built on Nemotron that helps robots and vision AI agents generate actions on edge computers. Developers can adapt the open Cosmos framework for specific robots, vehicles, sensors, and environments in about a day. The model deploys across RTX GPUs, DGX systems, and Jetson, including the new T2000 and T3000 modules. New Metropolis libraries help developers use coding agents to build, train, and operate video intelligence systems at least six times faster.
Fujitsu is exploring business opportunities to build a collaborative control platform that integrates Nvidia’s physical AI stack to bridge digital and physical operations with FANUC, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Built with Cosmos world foundation models, the Isaac robotics platform, Omniverse NuRec libraries, and the Newton physics engine, this platform supports AI model development, digital twins, robot learning, simulation-to-real workflows, and pre-deployment validation.
Enactic fine-tunes the Isaac GR00T model for elder-care semi-humanoid robots, GROOVE X builds Jetson-powered companion LOVOT robots, and Telexistence applies Isaac and Cosmos for retail automation. Japan’s industry leaders also use Metropolis to bring Cosmos-powered vision AI agents into physical operations, including Hitachi for smart buildings, OMRON for automated inspection, and Shimizu Corporation for construction safety.