NVIDIA on Wednesday unveiled Cosmos 3 Edge, a compact 4-billion-parameter world model designed to run on-device vision reasoning and generate robot policies locally, and announced that more than 20 Japanese robotics and manufacturing leaders intend to join the NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition. The announcements deepen NVIDIA's physical AI push in Japan as the government backs the effort with roughly $2.4 billion in industrial AI funding.
Cosmos 3 Edge brings frontier world models to the Jetson platform
Cosmos 3 Edge is built on the NVIDIA Nemotron family and, according to NVIDIA, can be adapted to specific robots, vehicles, sensors and environments in about a day using the open Cosmos framework. It runs on NVIDIA RTX GPUs, NVIDIA DGX systems and NVIDIA Jetson, including the newly announced Jetson Thor T2000 and T3000 edge modules. NVIDIA also released new Metropolis libraries that let developers build, train and operate vision AI agents at least six times faster.
A who's who of Japan Inc. lines up behind the Cosmos Coalition
The intended members of the Japanese arm of the Cosmos Coalition read like a directory of the country's industrial base: AIRoA, Enactic, FANUC, Fujitsu, GROOVE X, Hitachi, Honda R&D, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, Mitsui & Co., Mitsubishi Corp., Mujin, NEC, Preferred Networks, SoftBank Corp., Sony Group Corporation, Telexistence, TIER IV, TRON K.K., Turing and Yaskawa Electric. Members contribute to and build on the open Cosmos platform, its data curation libraries, datasets and frameworks.
Fujitsu-led platform aims to bridge digital and physical operations
Fujitsu is exploring a collaborative control platform for physical AI in partnership with FANUC, Yaskawa Electric and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, integrating Cosmos world foundation models, the Isaac robotics platform, NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec libraries and the Newton physics engine. Elsewhere in the ecosystem: SoftBank Corp. is building a physical AI development platform on Cosmos, Omniverse and Isaac Sim; Kubota is targeting autonomous agriculture and smart farming; Enactic is fine-tuning the open NVIDIA Isaac GR00T model for elder-care semi-humanoid robots; and GROOVE X is powering its LOVOT companion robots with Jetson. Hitachi, OMRON and Shimizu Corporation are deploying Cosmos-powered vision agents through NVIDIA Metropolis for smart-building operations, automated inspection and construction safety.
The announcements build on NVIDIA's broader Japan strategy, which already includes an Vera Rubin-powered national AI factory, an expanded Toyota Woven City partnership and NVIDIA's earlier release of the Cosmos 3 open world foundation model family in June. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang framed the moment as "a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Japan" to reinvent modern manufacturing for the age of intelligent industries.
Reporting based on coverage from NVIDIA Newsroom, SiliconANGLE and CNBC.