Kawasaki Heavy ties up with Nvidia on physical AI, and the rideable robot horse gets a foundation model
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Kawasaki Heavy Industries opened a San Jose joint development base with Nvidia, Analog Devices, Microsoft, and Fujitsu to develop physical AI for robots, targeting healthcare, nursing-care, and mobility use cases. The first showcase is CORLEO, Kawasaki’s four-legged, hydrogen-powered rideable mobility concept, which Kawasaki aims to commercialize in the long term. The partners will apply Nvidia’s simulation and AI stack to robot control and medical-robotics development, giving CORLEO a route toward a simulation-trained control system. Investors reacted positively, sending Kawasaki shares up as markets treated the tie-up as evidence Japan’s robotics incumbents are reorganizing around foundation-model software stacks.
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