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 develo

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.