Japan Embraces Digital Future with NVIDIA AI and Omniverse
By : Leadtek AI Expert
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Toyota, Yaskawa Electric, 7&I Holdings, and Rikei are spearheading a new wave of digital transformation in Japan by adopting digital twins and industrial AI.
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Robots are now handling heavy metals in Toyota's factories, while Yaskawa Electric's robots are collaborating with human workers on the factory floor. To facilitate similar operations in virtual environments, Rikei has developed digital twin tools for planning purposes.
Powered by NVIDIA Omniverse™, NVIDIA Isaac™, and NVIDIA Metropolis, physical AI and industrial AI are driving Japan's industrial giants toward the future. The NVIDIA Japan AI Summit showcased these groundbreaking initiatives, covering robotics manipulation, industrial inspection, and digital twins for human assistance.
The advent of generative AI-driven robotics is timely. With a declining population, Japan has an urgent need for advanced robotics. According to a report in The Japan Times, Japan is expected to face a labor shortage of 11 million by 2040.
Today, AI-based industrial and physical systems are accelerating through three-computer solutions, enabling the training, testing, simulation, and deployment of robot AI models.
Looking to the Future with Toyota Robotics
Toyota is using NVIDIA Omniverse for physics simulations of robot motion and grasping, enhancing its metal forging capabilities. This significantly reduces the training time required for robots to transport forged materials.
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[Image caption: This image is provided by Toyota. Please contact Toyota for any inquiries or if you need to use this image.]
Toyota is verifying whether the precision of Omniverse and NVIDIA PhysX can accurately replicate its robot operations and motion. Omniverse enables digital twin modeling of factories and other environments, precisely replicating the physical properties of real-world objects and systems, laying the foundation for building physical AI to drive next-generation autonomous systems.
With Omniverse, Toyota can model quality characteristics, gravity, and friction, then compare the results to physical test renditions, helping advance work in robot manipulation and motion.
The platform also allows Toyota to leverage robotics to replicate the expertise of veteran employees, addressing issues that require a high level of technical skill. Additionally, by eliminating the need for factory workers to work in the high-temperature and harsh environments of metal forging production lines, safety and productivity are also improved.
Yaskawa Electric Leverages NVIDIA Isaac for Automation
Yaskawa Electric, a leading global robot manufacturer, has shipped over 600,000 robots. The company offers nearly 200 robot models, including industrial robots for the automotive industry, collaborative robots, and dual-arm robots.
Robots are now handling heavy metals in Toyota's factories, while Yaskawa Electric's robots are collaborating with human workers on the factory floor. To facilitate similar operations in virtual environments, Rikei has developed digital twin tools for planning purposes.
Powered by NVIDIA Omniverse™, NVIDIA Isaac™, and NVIDIA Metropolis, physical AI and industrial AI are driving Japan's industrial giants toward the future. The NVIDIA Japan AI Summit showcased these groundbreaking initiatives, covering robotics manipulation, industrial inspection, and digital twins for human assistance.
The advent of generative AI-driven robotics is timely. With a declining population, Japan has an urgent need for advanced robotics. According to a report in The Japan Times, Japan is expected to face a labor shortage of 11 million by 2040.
Today, AI-based industrial and physical systems are accelerating through three-computer solutions, enabling the training, testing, simulation, and deployment of robot AI models.
Looking to the Future with Toyota Robotics
Toyota is using NVIDIA Omniverse for physics simulations of robot motion and grasping, enhancing its metal forging capabilities. This significantly reduces the training time required for robots to transport forged materials.
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[Image caption: This image is provided by Toyota. Please contact Toyota for any inquiries or if you need to use this image.]
Toyota is verifying whether the precision of Omniverse and NVIDIA PhysX can accurately replicate its robot operations and motion. Omniverse enables digital twin modeling of factories and other environments, precisely replicating the physical properties of real-world objects and systems, laying the foundation for building physical AI to drive next-generation autonomous systems.
With Omniverse, Toyota can model quality characteristics, gravity, and friction, then compare the results to physical test renditions, helping advance work in robot manipulation and motion.
The platform also allows Toyota to leverage robotics to replicate the expertise of veteran employees, addressing issues that require a high level of technical skill. Additionally, by eliminating the need for factory workers to work in the high-temperature and harsh environments of metal forging production lines, safety and productivity are also improved.
Yaskawa Electric Leverages NVIDIA Isaac for Automation
Yaskawa Electric, a leading global robot manufacturer, has shipped over 600,000 robots. The company offers nearly 200 robot models, including industrial robots for the automotive industry, collaborative robots, and dual-arm robots.
The advent of generative AI-driven robotics is timely. With a declining population, Japan has an urgent need for advanced robotics. According to a report in The Japan Times, Japan is expected to face a labor shortage of 11 million by 2040.
Today, AI-based industrial and physical systems are accelerating through three-computer solutions, enabling the training, testing, simulation, and deployment of robot AI models.
Looking to the Future with Toyota Robotics
Toyota is using NVIDIA Omniverse for physics simulations of robot motion and grasping, enhancing its metal forging capabilities. This significantly reduces the training time required for robots to transport forged materials.
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[Image caption: This image is provided by Toyota. Please contact Toyota for any inquiries or if you need to use this image.]
Toyota is verifying whether the precision of Omniverse and NVIDIA PhysX can accurately replicate its robot operations and motion. Omniverse enables digital twin modeling of factories and other environments, precisely replicating the physical properties of real-world objects and systems, laying the foundation for building physical AI to drive next-generation autonomous systems.
With Omniverse, Toyota can model quality characteristics, gravity, and friction, then compare the results to physical test renditions, helping advance work in robot manipulation and motion.
The platform also allows Toyota to leverage robotics to replicate the expertise of veteran employees, addressing issues that require a high level of technical skill. Additionally, by eliminating the need for factory workers to work in the high-temperature and harsh environments of metal forging production lines, safety and productivity are also improved.
Yaskawa Electric Leverages NVIDIA Isaac for Automation
Yaskawa Electric, a leading global robot manufacturer, has shipped over 600,000 robots. The company offers nearly 200 robot models, including industrial robots for the automotive industry, collaborative robots, and dual-arm robots.
Looking to the Future with Toyota Robotics
Toyota is using NVIDIA Omniverse for physics simulations of robot motion and grasping, enhancing its metal forging capabilities. This significantly reduces the training time required for robots to transport forged materials.
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[Image caption: This image is provided by Toyota. Please contact Toyota for any inquiries or if you need to use this image.]
Toyota is verifying whether the precision of Omniverse and NVIDIA PhysX can accurately replicate its robot operations and motion. Omniverse enables digital twin modeling of factories and other environments, precisely replicating the physical properties of real-world objects and systems, laying the foundation for building physical AI to drive next-generation autonomous systems.
With Omniverse, Toyota can model quality characteristics, gravity, and friction, then compare the results to physical test renditions, helping advance work in robot manipulation and motion.
The platform also allows Toyota to leverage robotics to replicate the expertise of veteran employees, addressing issues that require a high level of technical skill. Additionally, by eliminating the need for factory workers to work in the high-temperature and harsh environments of metal forging production lines, safety and productivity are also improved.
Yaskawa Electric Leverages NVIDIA Isaac for Automation
Yaskawa Electric, a leading global robot manufacturer, has shipped over 600,000 robots. The company offers nearly 200 robot models, including industrial robots for the automotive industry, collaborative robots, and dual-arm robots.
[Image caption: This image is provided by Toyota. Please contact Toyota for any inquiries or if you need to use this image.]
Toyota is verifying whether the precision of Omniverse and NVIDIA PhysX can accurately replicate its robot operations and motion. Omniverse enables digital twin modeling of factories and other environments, precisely replicating the physical properties of real-world objects and systems, laying the foundation for building physical AI to drive next-generation autonomous systems.
With Omniverse, Toyota can model quality characteristics, gravity, and friction, then compare the results to physical test renditions, helping advance work in robot manipulation and motion.
The platform also allows Toyota to leverage robotics to replicate the expertise of veteran employees, addressing issues that require a high level of technical skill. Additionally, by eliminating the need for factory workers to work in the high-temperature and harsh environments of metal forging production lines, safety and productivity are also improved.
Yaskawa Electric Leverages NVIDIA Isaac for Automation
Yaskawa Electric, a leading global robot manufacturer, has shipped over 600,000 robots. The company offers nearly 200 robot models, including industrial robots for the automotive industry, collaborative robots, and dual-arm robots.
With Omniverse, Toyota can model quality characteristics, gravity, and friction, then compare the results to physical test renditions, helping advance work in robot manipulation and motion.
The platform also allows Toyota to leverage robotics to replicate the expertise of veteran employees, addressing issues that require a high level of technical skill. Additionally, by eliminating the need for factory workers to work in the high-temperature and harsh environments of metal forging production lines, safety and productivity are also improved.
Yaskawa Electric Leverages NVIDIA Isaac for Automation
Yaskawa Electric, a leading global robot manufacturer, has shipped over 600,000 robots. The company offers nearly 200 robot models, including industrial robots for the automotive industry, collaborative robots, and dual-arm robots.
Yaskawa Electric Leverages NVIDIA Isaac for Automation
Yaskawa Electric, a leading global robot manufacturer, has shipped over 600,000 robots. The company offers nearly 200 robot models, including industrial robots for the automotive industry, collaborative robots, and dual-arm robots.
[Image caption: This image is provided by Yaskawa Electric. Please contact Yaskawa Electric for any inquiries or if you need to use this image.]
The Japanese robotics leader is entering new markets with its MOTOMAN NEXT adaptive robots, designed for task adaptability, versatility, and flexibility. Powered by advanced robotics technology supported by the NVIDIA Isaac and Omniverse platforms, Yaskawa Electric's adaptive robots primarily provide automation services to the food, logistics, medical, and agricultural industries.
Leveraging NVIDIA Isaac Manipulator, an NVIDIA accelerated library and AI model reference workflow, Yaskawa Electric is integrating AI into its industrial robot arms, enabling them to perform a variety of industrial automation tasks.
Yaskawa Electric is using FoundationPose for precise 6D pose estimation and tracking. These AI models improve the adaptability and efficiency of Yaskawa Electric's robot arms, and motion control enables a seamless transition from simulation to reality, allowing these arms to flexibly and effectively perform complex tasks across various industries.
Additionally, Yaskawa Electric is actively using NVIDIA Isaac Sim (built on Omniverse) for digital twin and robot simulation to accelerate the development and deployment of Yaskawa Electric's robotic solutions, saving time and resources.
7&I Holdings and Rikei: Driving Innovation with Digital Twins
7&I Holdings is a leading diversified retail holding company in Japan. The company is leveraging digital simulation technology to conduct proof-of-concept studies and gain insights into customer behavior within its stores.
7&I is currently capitalizing on NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA Metropolis to advance its research endeavors, aiming for a deeper understanding of its store operations. NVIDIA Metropolis, a development toolkit for building vision AI applications, enables the analysis of store operations through computer vision models, thus improving efficiency and security. The digital twin model of this environment is developed within an Omniverse-based application, utilizing assets from Blender and animations from SideFX Houdini.
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[Image caption: This image is provided by 7&I Holdings. Please contact 7&I for any inquiries or if you need to use this image.]
By combining digital twins with price recognition, object tracking, and other AI-based computations, it is possible to generate valuable insights into retail environments and customer interactions. This data can be leveraged to dynamically generate and display personalized advertisements on digital signage.
The retailer plans to use Metropolis and NVIDIA Merlin™ recommendation engine framework to create tailored suggestions for individual consumers, providing unprecedented responses to customer interests based on data.
Leveraging NVIDIA Isaac Manipulator, an NVIDIA accelerated library and AI model reference workflow, Yaskawa Electric is integrating AI into its industrial robot arms, enabling them to perform a variety of industrial automation tasks.
Yaskawa Electric is using FoundationPose for precise 6D pose estimation and tracking. These AI models improve the adaptability and efficiency of Yaskawa Electric's robot arms, and motion control enables a seamless transition from simulation to reality, allowing these arms to flexibly and effectively perform complex tasks across various industries.
Additionally, Yaskawa Electric is actively using NVIDIA Isaac Sim (built on Omniverse) for digital twin and robot simulation to accelerate the development and deployment of Yaskawa Electric's robotic solutions, saving time and resources.
7&I Holdings and Rikei: Driving Innovation with Digital Twins
7&I Holdings is a leading diversified retail holding company in Japan. The company is leveraging digital simulation technology to conduct proof-of-concept studies and gain insights into customer behavior within its stores.
7&I is currently capitalizing on NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA Metropolis to advance its research endeavors, aiming for a deeper understanding of its store operations. NVIDIA Metropolis, a development toolkit for building vision AI applications, enables the analysis of store operations through computer vision models, thus improving efficiency and security. The digital twin model of this environment is developed within an Omniverse-based application, utilizing assets from Blender and animations from SideFX Houdini.
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[Image caption: This image is provided by 7&I Holdings. Please contact 7&I for any inquiries or if you need to use this image.]
By combining digital twins with price recognition, object tracking, and other AI-based computations, it is possible to generate valuable insights into retail environments and customer interactions. This data can be leveraged to dynamically generate and display personalized advertisements on digital signage.
The retailer plans to use Metropolis and NVIDIA Merlin™ recommendation engine framework to create tailored suggestions for individual consumers, providing unprecedented responses to customer interests based on data.
Additionally, Yaskawa Electric is actively using NVIDIA Isaac Sim (built on Omniverse) for digital twin and robot simulation to accelerate the development and deployment of Yaskawa Electric's robotic solutions, saving time and resources.
7&I Holdings and Rikei: Driving Innovation with Digital Twins
7&I Holdings is a leading diversified retail holding company in Japan. The company is leveraging digital simulation technology to conduct proof-of-concept studies and gain insights into customer behavior within its stores.
7&I is currently capitalizing on NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA Metropolis to advance its research endeavors, aiming for a deeper understanding of its store operations. NVIDIA Metropolis, a development toolkit for building vision AI applications, enables the analysis of store operations through computer vision models, thus improving efficiency and security. The digital twin model of this environment is developed within an Omniverse-based application, utilizing assets from Blender and animations from SideFX Houdini.
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[Image caption: This image is provided by 7&I Holdings. Please contact 7&I for any inquiries or if you need to use this image.]
By combining digital twins with price recognition, object tracking, and other AI-based computations, it is possible to generate valuable insights into retail environments and customer interactions. This data can be leveraged to dynamically generate and display personalized advertisements on digital signage.
The retailer plans to use Metropolis and NVIDIA Merlin™ recommendation engine framework to create tailored suggestions for individual consumers, providing unprecedented responses to customer interests based on data.
7&I Holdings and Rikei: Driving Innovation with Digital Twins
7&I Holdings is a leading diversified retail holding company in Japan. The company is leveraging digital simulation technology to conduct proof-of-concept studies and gain insights into customer behavior within its stores.
7&I is currently capitalizing on NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA Metropolis to advance its research endeavors, aiming for a deeper understanding of its store operations. NVIDIA Metropolis, a development toolkit for building vision AI applications, enables the analysis of store operations through computer vision models, thus improving efficiency and security. The digital twin model of this environment is developed within an Omniverse-based application, utilizing assets from Blender and animations from SideFX Houdini.
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[Image caption: This image is provided by 7&I Holdings. Please contact 7&I for any inquiries or if you need to use this image.]
By combining digital twins with price recognition, object tracking, and other AI-based computations, it is possible to generate valuable insights into retail environments and customer interactions. This data can be leveraged to dynamically generate and display personalized advertisements on digital signage.
The retailer plans to use Metropolis and NVIDIA Merlin™ recommendation engine framework to create tailored suggestions for individual consumers, providing unprecedented responses to customer interests based on data.
[Image caption: This image is provided by 7&I Holdings. Please contact 7&I for any inquiries or if you need to use this image.]
By combining digital twins with price recognition, object tracking, and other AI-based computations, it is possible to generate valuable insights into retail environments and customer interactions. This data can be leveraged to dynamically generate and display personalized advertisements on digital signage.
The retailer plans to use Metropolis and NVIDIA Merlin™ recommendation engine framework to create tailored suggestions for individual consumers, providing unprecedented responses to customer interests based on data.
The retailer plans to use Metropolis and NVIDIA Merlin™ recommendation engine framework to create tailored suggestions for individual consumers, providing unprecedented responses to customer interests based on data.
Rikei
Rikei is a system solutions provider specializing in spatial computing and augmented reality technologies for the manufacturing industry.
This technology company has developed a digital twin asset library called JAPAN USD Factory specifically for Japanese manufacturing. Built on NVIDIA Omniverse, JAPAN USD Factory digitally replicates commonly used materials and equipment found in manufacturing sites across Japan, enabling Japanese manufacturers to more easily construct digital twins of their factories and warehouses.
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[Image caption: This image is provided by Rikei. Please contact Rikei for any inquiries or if you need to use this image.]
Rikei's goal is to use these digital assets to streamline various design, simulation, and operational stages in the manufacturing process, enabling manufacturers to enhance productivity through digital twins.
JAPAN USD Factory is developed using the universal 3D asset exchange format, OpenUSD. Developers can access the JAPAN USD Factory asset library to obtain a variety of assets such as color palettes and racks, enabling seamless integration of all tools and workflows.
For more information, please watch NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang's fireside chat at the NVIDIA Japan AI Summit: https://www.nvidia.cn/events/ai-summit-japan/
*Copyright of images or videos (in whole or in part) related to NVIDIA products belongs to NVIDIA Corporation.
This technology company has developed a digital twin asset library called JAPAN USD Factory specifically for Japanese manufacturing. Built on NVIDIA Omniverse, JAPAN USD Factory digitally replicates commonly used materials and equipment found in manufacturing sites across Japan, enabling Japanese manufacturers to more easily construct digital twins of their factories and warehouses.
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[Image caption: This image is provided by Rikei. Please contact Rikei for any inquiries or if you need to use this image.]
Rikei's goal is to use these digital assets to streamline various design, simulation, and operational stages in the manufacturing process, enabling manufacturers to enhance productivity through digital twins.
JAPAN USD Factory is developed using the universal 3D asset exchange format, OpenUSD. Developers can access the JAPAN USD Factory asset library to obtain a variety of assets such as color palettes and racks, enabling seamless integration of all tools and workflows.
For more information, please watch NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang's fireside chat at the NVIDIA Japan AI Summit: https://www.nvidia.cn/events/ai-summit-japan/
*Copyright of images or videos (in whole or in part) related to NVIDIA products belongs to NVIDIA Corporation.
[Image caption: This image is provided by Rikei. Please contact Rikei for any inquiries or if you need to use this image.]