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Kioxia And Sandisk Commit Over $31 Billion To Japan Flash Memory Push Through 2032 — Sep 1, 2026 — The 25-year joint venture will pour more than 5 trillion yen into Yokkaichi and Kitakami to meet AI-driven NAND demand.ZEALS Unveils D1, Japan's First Commercial Wheeled Humanoid Robot — Aug 30, 2026 — Tokyo-based AI firm ZEALS unveiled the D1 wheeled humanoid on August 5, 2026 — Japan's first commercially available humanoid robot certified through a...NSK And Atom Sign MoU To Build Japan's Humanoid Robotics Base — Aug 24, 2026 — Precision-component giant NSK and Tokyo humanoid startup Atom agreed to jointly test humanoid actuators and collect physical-AI training data inside N...TIER IV Joins Open Invention Network 2.0 To Shield Autoware From Patent Risk — Aug 22, 2026 — Japan's TIER IV, the pioneer behind the open-source Autoware stack for autonomous driving, has joined Open Invention Network 2.0, gaining a royalty-fr...Uber Names Tokyo Taxi Firm Hinomaru Kotsu As Robotaxi Fleet Operator — Aug 21, 2026 — Uber Japan will run its late-2026 Tokyo robotaxi pilot with Hinomaru Kotsu as licensed fleet operator, using Nissan LEAF EVs powered by Wayve's AI Dri...Sony And TSMC Ink $6.4B Image Sensor JV In Kumamoto — Aug 16, 2026 — Sony Semiconductor Solutions and TSMC signed a definitive agreement to form Advanced Vision Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, a ~1 trillion yen...Turing Plots US Office And $10B IPO For Japan Self-Driving Push — Aug 14, 2026 — Tokyo autonomous-driving startup Turing plans a US office within a year and is eyeing a US listing at roughly $10 billion valuation by 2031.Tokyo Gas Signs 202MWh Fukushima BESS Offtake With Hexa — Aug 5, 2026 — Tokyo Gas has entered a 20-year offtake tolling agreement with Hexa Energy Services for a 49.7 MW / 202.1 MWh battery storage project in Fukushima Pre...HII, HD HHI Deploy Intelligent Welding Robots at Ingalls Shipbuilding — Aug 5, 2026 — HII and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries will install intelligent mechanized welding systems in unit-fabrication areas at Ingalls Shipbuilding, extending U...Fujitsu, Monash and CSIRO Sign Quantum MoU to Bridge Australia-Japan Research — Aug 5, 2026 — Fujitsu, Monash University and CSIRO signed an MoU giving Australian researchers direct access to Fujitsu's Japanese quantum computing systems and sim...OptQC and NTT Sign Capital Alliance to Build 1M-Qubit Optical Quantum Computer — Aug 5, 2026 — OptQC and NTT have signed a capital and business alliance to co-develop a fault-tolerant, one-million-qubit-class optical quantum computer by FY2030,...Rocket Lab Books Three More Electron Launches for Japan's iQPS SAR Constellation — Aug 1, 2026 — Rocket Lab has signed its third multi-launch deal with Japanese SAR operator iQPS in under a year, bringing total booked Electron missions to 18 and c...TANAKA Fires Up 500 kW Pure Hydrogen Plant Using Toshiba H2Rex In Hiratsuka — Jul 30, 2026 — TANAKA Precious Metal Technologies commissions one of Japan's largest 500 kW pure hydrogen fuel-cell plants at its Shonan site — five Toshiba H2Rex un...Medicaroid Wins Europe's CE Mark For Hinotori Surgical Robot — Jul 27, 2026 — Kobe-based Medicaroid, a Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Sysmex joint venture, has secured a CE mark for its hinotori surgical robot, clearing a Europea...Shimizu Launches Full-Scale AI Humanoid Robot Program for Construction Sites — Jul 25, 2026 — Japanese contractor Shimizu Corporation has kicked off full-scale development of Physical AI humanoid robots and painting robot arms for construction...NVIDIA Powers Two RIKEN Supercomputers with 2,140 Blackwell GPUs — Jul 22, 2026 — NVIDIA and RIKEN bring RIKYU and ROQUO online — two Blackwell supercomputers with 2,140 GPUs powering Japan's sovereign AI for science and hybrid quan...Yaskawa And SoftBank Validate MOTOMAN NEXT Physical AI On Deformable Wire Harnesses — Jul 19, 2026 — Yaskawa and SoftBank Corp on 13 July validated a Physical AI system that has the MOTOMAN NEXT robot pick and box irregular wire harnesses, using SoftB...WAIC 2026 Opens in Shanghai With Xi Jinping, 300+ Product Debuts and a China-Led AI Governance Push — Jul 17, 2026 — The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference opened in Shanghai on July 17 with Xi Jinping in attendance, 1,100+ exhibitors, 300 global product d...NVIDIA Launches Cosmos 3 Edge, Signs Up Japan's Robotics Giants — Jul 17, 2026 — NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4B-parameter world model for on-device robot policy generation, as more than 20 Japanese industrial leaders — FANUC,...Mitsubishi Motors, Highlanders Ink MOU To Mass-Produce Humanoid Robots At Kyoto Plant — Jul 11, 2026 — Mitsubishi Motors and University of Tokyo startup Highlanders will jointly develop humanoid robots for Mitsubishi's factories and mass-produce Highlan...