The Japanese government will work with major machinery manufacturers to collect
machine-learning data for physical AI applications such as autonomous robots,
assigning unique IDs to factory equipment to enable cross-vendor data
aggregation, Nikkei reports. Japan targets a domestic AI-robotics industry worth
20 trillion yen by 2040 (about $127 billion) and aims to secure over 30% of the
global market, leveraging its manufacturing base to supply high-quality training
data for domestic robot development.
