NVIDIA is expanding its Cosmos Coalition to Japan, with more than 20 Japanese robotics, manufacturing, and technology companies signaling intent to join the initiative and build on NVIDIA's physical AI platforms1,3.
The announcement, made on July 15, 2026, includes the introduction of Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter model built on NVIDIA Nemotron designed for on-device vision reasoning and robot policy deployment on NVIDIA Jetson Thor platforms. The model enables embodied systems to perceive surroundings, reason in real time, and predict robot actions locally. Cosmos 3 Edge can be deployed across NVIDIA RTX GPUs, NVIDIA DGX systems, and NVIDIA Jetson, including newly announced T2000 and T3000 modules. Using the open NVIDIA Cosmos framework, developers can adapt Cosmos 3 Edge for specific robots, vehicles, sensors, and environments in approximately one day.
"Japan invented modern manufacturing. Now, it has the opportunity to reinvent it for the age of intelligent industries," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "By combining its world-leading heritage in manufacturing, precision engineering and robotics with Nvidia Cosmos, Isaac, Metropolis and Jetson, Japan's innovators are building the next generation of intelligent machines."
The coalition's Japanese members span a broad cross-section of the country's industrial base. AIRoA, FANUC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, NEC, SoftBank Corp., Sony Group Corporation, and Yaskawa Electric intend to join the NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition to help build open frontier physical AI models. Additional companies building on NVIDIA's physical AI stack include classmethod, Enactic, GROOVE X, Honda R&D, Mitsubishi Corp., Mitsui & Co., Mujin, OMRON, Preferred Networks, Shimizu Corporation, Telexistence, TIER IV, TRON K.K., and Turing.
Fujitsu is exploring the development of a collaborative control platform for physical AI, with FANUC, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries integrating NVIDIA technologies. The platform is intended to support AI model development, digital twins, robot learning, simulation-to-real workflows, and pre-deployment validation.
Several companies disclosed specific use cases. SoftBank Corp. is developing a physical AI development platform built on NVIDIA Cosmos, NVIDIA Omniverse, and NVIDIA Isaac Sim, and is advancing AI-RAN initiatives using NVIDIA AI Aerial for connectivity serving physical AI devices. Kawasaki Heavy Industries is applying NVIDIA physical AI technologies across healthcare, shipbuilding, transportation, aerospace, and energy. Kubota is exploring Cosmos-based physical AI for autonomous agriculture and smart farming. Enactic is fine-tuning the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T open model for elder-care semi-humanoid robots. GROOVE X is building Jetson-powered companion robots, LOVOT.
On the industrial automation and inspection side, OMRON is using NVIDIA Metropolis to bring Cosmos-powered vision AI agents into automated inspection, Hitachi is applying the same technology to smart-building operations, and Shimizu Corporation is targeting construction safety. Mujin is exploring NVIDIA Cosmos for autonomous robotics and intelligent industrial automation powered by MujinOS. TRON K.K. is developing factory 3D digitization workflows and manufacturing data workflows for task-specific physical AI models in assembly, picking, inspection, and material handling.
NVIDIA also announced new NVIDIA Metropolis libraries and skills that help developers use coding agents to build, train, and operate video intelligence systems with Cosmos at least 6x faster.
ANALYSIS The breadth of the Japanese coalition — spanning automotive R&D, heavy industry, agriculture, elder care, retail, and telecommunications — reflects the scope of NVIDIA's ambition to position its Cosmos and Jetson platforms as a horizontal infrastructure layer for physical AI across sectors, not just robotics.