Fanuc Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, sale, and maintenance services of products used in automated production systems in Japan, the United States, Europe, China, the rest of Asia, and internationally. The company offers CNC series, robots, and robomachine products, such as servo motors, lasers, compact machining centers, electric injection molding machines, wire electrical discharge machines, system basic package, and AI servo monitors. Fanuc Corporation was incorporated in 1950 and is headquartered in Yamanashi, Japan.
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China's Unitree lists on Shanghai STAR Market, accelerating humanoid robot mass-production race
Chinese humanoid robot leader Unitree Robotics listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market for emerging companies on the 19th. The opening price was 7.3 times the offer price, giving it a stock market value of about 445 billion yuan, or roughly 10.5 trillion yen, based on the opening price, surpassing Fanuc, the global industrial robot giant valued at about 6 trillion yen. Unitree was founded in Zhejiang Province in 2016, and its strength lies in low-cost mass production of humanoid and quadruped robots, with overseas sales accounting for about 40 percent. In Japan, Japan Airlines is testing its robots in cargo operations, and a JR East group company is using them for equipment inspections at Tokyo Station. Unitree is also jointly developing research robots with U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia. According to British research firm Omdia, global shipments of humanoid robots in 2025 totaled about 13,300 units, with Chinese companies accounting for more than 80 percent, and Unitree alone making up 30 percent of that. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has grown increasingly wary of Chinese-made robots over security concerns. The U.S. Department of Defense designated Unitree as a Chinese military company in June, and the Federal Communications Commission has restricted equipment certification for its new products.
Nvidia Signs Seven Japanese Industrial Giants Into Physical AI Coalition
Nvidia has signed seven Japanese industrial giants into its new physical AI coalition, locking in a massive, long-lived stream of demand for its chips and software. Companies including Fujitsu, FANUC, Yaskawa Electric, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Hitachi, NEC, SoftBank, Sony, and Kubota intend to build on Nvidia's Cosmos, Isaac, Metropolis, and Jetson platforms as part of a Cosmos Coalition focused on physical AI. Nvidia is also partnering with Noetra, a Japanese AI consortium backed by Sony, SoftBank, Honda, and dozens of other firms, to build what it calls the world's first national infrastructure for physical AI, centered on a Vera Rubin AI factory with 13,750 Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs delivering about 140 megawatts of compute capacity. Japan's industry ministry expects this to help the country capture 30% of the global AI robotics market by 2040, and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government plans to mobilize more than 370 trillion yen, or 2.3 trillion dollars, in combined public and private investment by 2040 across physical AI, semiconductors, and data centers. Noetra's own roadmap calls for roughly 1 trillion yen, or 6.3 billion dollars, of sovereign AI spending over five years to develop domestic foundation models for robots and industrial AI.
Fanuc posts higher Q1 revenue and profit, lifts full-year guidance, yet shares drop over 10%
Fanuc reported higher revenue and profit for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2027 and raised its full-year earnings forecast, yet its share price fell more than 10% on August 3 from the previous day. First-quarter revenue came to 231 billion yen, up 17.7% year on year, operating profit was 53.5 billion yen, up 26.1%, recurring profit was 68.2 billion yen, up 32.3%, and net profit was 51 billion yen, up 34.7%. Recurring profit was boosted by 11.4 billion yen in equity-method investment gains. The full-year forecast was raised to 948.1 billion yen in revenue from 909.6 billion yen, and to 198 billion yen in net profit from 184.9 billion yen, assuming exchange rates of 150 yen to the dollar and 175 yen to the euro. In the factory automation segment, CNC systems grew in Japan and China. The robot segment was driven by electric vehicle-related demand in the Americas and China, and the robomachine segment also grew on increased demand in China. The stock had been trading between 6,600 yen and 7,500 yen in July, closing at 7,135 yen on July 31. But after the earnings release, it fell to 6,114 yen on August 3, the lowest level in the past month. The relatively high valuation of 28 times earnings and 3.01 times book value may have contributed to the pullback.
Nvidia deepens Japan AI push with factory deal and robotics tie-ups
Nvidia has expanded its AI footprint in Japan with a national AI factory partnership and new alliances with Japanese leaders across robotics, industrial automation, automotive, and smart cities, including Toyota, Fanuc, Yaskawa, Sony, SoftBank, and Mitsubishi Heavy. The company introduced Cosmos 3 Edge and new Metropolis libraries aimed at deploying agentic AI on devices and across real-world infrastructure. Nvidia, trading at $207.4, has returned 9.8% year to date and 20.0% over the past year. The Japan-focused push adds a real-world deployment angle alongside the better-known data center narrative, positioning Nvidia as a core platform across factories, vehicles, and cities.
Nvidia Expands AI Push Across Japan's Largest Industries
Nvidia is widening its reach across Japan's largest industries. During a visit to Tokyo, CEO Jensen Huang announced partnerships covering robotics, health care, banking, manufacturing, automobiles, quantum computing and gaming. Japanese companies including FANUC, Sony, Hitachi, Kubota and SoftBank plan to work with Nvidia on physical AI models for robots and industrial systems. In health care, several drugmakers are using Nvidia's BioNeMo platform for drug discovery, while Canon and Fujifilm introduced medical imaging systems built with Nvidia technology. Toyota is expanding its work with Nvidia on driver-assistance software, factory simulations and traffic systems, Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui are building AI infrastructure for banking, and RIKEN is preparing Blackwell-powered supercomputers for scientific and quantum research.
Nvidia CEO Huang unveils broad AI partnerships across Japan's key industries
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a broad slate of AI products, partnerships, and customer deployments at the company's Japan AI event in Tokyo on July 15. The announcements spanned physical AI, healthcare, financial services, quantum computing, automotive, manufacturing, and gaming, highlighting Nvidia's push to position its technologies at the forefront of Japan's next-generation AI infrastructure. In physical AI and robotics, Nvidia launched Cosmos 3 Edge for on-device vision reasoning, and companies including FANUC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, NEC, SoftBank, Sony Group, and Yaskawa Electric plan to join the Nvidia Cosmos Coalition to develop open physical AI models. In healthcare, Astellas Pharma, Eisai, Daiichi Sankyo, Ono Pharmaceutical, and Takeda Pharmaceutical are deploying Nvidia BioNeMo for AI-powered drug discovery, while Canon and Fujifilm introduced Nvidia-powered next-generation CT systems, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries is advancing AI-enabled surgical and hospital robots. In financial services, Mizuho Financial plans Japan's largest on-premises AI factory for banking, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial has deployed an AI factory through Japan Research Institute, and Rakuten Bank is developing AI transaction foundation models using Nvidia Agent Toolkit. Huang emphasized that the next wave of AI will be physical AI—robots, factories, vehicles, and industrial systems that can perceive, reason, and act in the real world—and said Japan's leadership in robotics, manufacturing, and precision engineering positions it to play a leading role in this transition.
Fujitsu, Fanuc, and Others Begin Exploring Physical AI Business Using NVIDIA Technology
Fujitsu announced it has begun exploring business opportunities in the physical AI field together with Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries. By incorporating NVIDIA technology, the companies aim to build a sovereign AI foundation that bridges the digital and physical worlds.
Nvidia announces expanded partnerships with Japanese companies including Fujitsu and Toyota
US semiconductor giant Nvidia announced on the 16th, coinciding with CEO Jensen Huang's visit to Japan, a series of expanded partnerships with Japanese companies including Fujitsu and Toyota Motor. With Fujitsu, it will jointly explore commercialization in areas such as factories, retail, and logistics, together with Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries. It will provide technical cooperation for Toyota Motor's Woven City test course, and collaborate with Hitachi on realizing a system that integrates and controls entire sites such as factories and power plants. These initiatives will promote the social implementation of physical AI, which can be utilized for robot operations and other applications.
Vention and FANUC America expand collaboration to bring industrial robots onto Vention's AI-driven platform
Vention and FANUC America have expanded their collaboration to integrate FANUC's industrial robot portfolio into Vention's AI-powered automation platform. The unified platform now supports multiple FANUC robot families, including CRX collaborative robots, LR Mate industrial robots, LR-10iA series, M-710iD series, and M-20iD series, enabling manufacturers to design, simulate, deploy, and operate both collaborative and industrial robotic applications from a single digital environment. The system uses goal-driven programming, where operators define start and end targets and the platform automatically generates optimal collision-free motion paths, reducing commissioning complexity. Live demonstrations at Automate 2026 feature a FANUC CRX10iA collaborative robot and a FANUC LR Mate industrial robot powered by Vention's MachineMotion AI and MachineLogic software.
GM installs dozens of cobots at Detroit plant where 1,000 workers were laid off
General Motors has installed dozens of collaborative robots at its Detroit-Hamtramck Factory Zero plant, the same facility where over 1,000 workers have been laid off this year. GM spokesman Kevin Kelly said the Fanuc-made cobots are part of a broader push to bring advanced technology into operations, improving safety and ergonomics while keeping the plant flexible and competitive. UAW Local 22 president James Cotton, who toured the plant and estimated around 50 new cobots, said the union is disgusted and that manpower is being taken away. The move raises tensions ahead of 2028 contract negotiations, as automation reduces labor hours per vehicle by 50% to 70% since the 1980s, according to Wayne State University professor Marick Masters.