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TB JAPAN TAG 🇯🇵 SoftBank and Yaskawa develop AI-controlled robots for complex, flexible tasks

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Hello my dears,

Today is Tenbagger Japan Day

After the most important technical innovation of the 19th century, the railroad.

This second Japan Day report is about a new revolution.

I personally consider Yaskawa Electric and Softbank to be great growth stocks. Also in chart terms (@TomTurboInvest ?)

( no investment advice, just my personal opinion).

@PikaPika0105 (Japan shares)

Japan is facing an acute labor shortage due to declining birth rates and an aging population. Therefore, the need for automation and labor-saving solutions is increasing in many industries, and the use of AI and robotics is becoming increasingly important to meet these demands.

While industrial robots are widely used in factories, environments where many people move around - such as offices, hospitals, schools and department stores - require complex decision-making and flexible responses to unpredictable situations, which is a challenge for traditional robots.

To help robots make more complex decisions and expand their range of tasks, SoftBank and Yaskawa Electric have teamed up to improve the functionality of robots.

On December 1, 2025, the two companies announced a collaboration to socially implement Physical AI - a technology that enables robots to analyze and interpret data from sensors, cameras and external systems using AI, allowing them to perform flexible and complex physical movements based on AI-driven decisions.

The partnership combines the high operational performance and precise control of Yaskawa Electric's AI robotics with SoftBank's AI-RAN technology. In the first phase of their collaboration, SoftBank and Yaskawa Electric jointly developed a use case for an office-oriented physical AI robot that is integrated with building management systems and utilizes AI on multi-access edge computing (MEC). This use case enables the integration and analysis of a wide range of information in real time, allowing situations to be precisely assessed and robots to be optimally controlled. This allows robots to flexibly cover a wider range of tasks and realize a "multifunctionality" suitable for office environments.

Yaskawa Electric and SoftBank will demonstrate this use case at Yaskawa's main booth at the International Robot Exhibition 2025 (iREX 2025), which will be held at Tokyo Big Sight from December 3-6, 2025. @EpsEra ( Topic Robotic) to Tokyo.

https://www.thefastmode.com/technology-solutions/46206-softbank-yaskawa-develop-ai-driven-robots-for-complex-flexible-tasks

www.thefastmode.comSoftBank, Yaskawa Develop AI-Driven Robots for Complex, Flexible Tasks

14 Comentarios

Chris@Multibagger

I am very skeptical about Softbank. They are betting almost everything on Open AI. And that could very well go wrong.

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Tenbagger2024@Tenbagger2024

@Multibagger
I think everything is a bit over the top. I see a lot more in softbank's investments.

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Chris@Multibagger

@Tenbagger2024 but the big ones have recently driven them down quite a bit, e.g. $NVDA and shifted completely into Open AI. They made a mistake like this once before in the days of the Neuer Markt and almost went bankrupt and took many years to recover.

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Tenbagger2024@Tenbagger2024

@Multibagger
Yes okay, of course you should take that into account

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PikaPika0105@PikaPika0105

@Multibagger OpenAi is just a small piece of the puzzle in their strategy, you have to look at the bigger picture. They are active at every point in the value chain. They operate data centers, supply them with energy, build their own AI models, run AI workloads via their AI RAN, etc. What is particularly interesting, however, is what is happening in the semiconductor sector. I think they are trying to compete with NVIDIA in the medium term with their subsidiaries ARM, Ampere Computing and Graphcore. Energy-saving, high-performance AI chips, but that remains to be seen. The robot ambitions are also interesting. They have bought ABB Robotics, the last major European robot manufacturer (no. 2 in the world), to use it for their vision of physical AI. There are also other partnerships, such as the new one with Yaskawa. Then there are all the other assets. Those who are skeptical about SoftBank mostly just don't really understand it.

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Chris@Multibagger

@PikaPika0105 You may be right. Perhaps it is also the burnt child that is afraid of fire. I was already invested several times in 2000. Thank God I didn't participate in the entire dip from €63 to €3 back then, but it still hurt. And the crash wasn't due to 09/11

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Tenbagger2024@Tenbagger2024

@PikaPika0105
Are they still involved in coupang?

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PikaPika0105@PikaPika0105

@Tenbagger2024 yes about 20%

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PikaPika0105@PikaPika0105

@Multibagger that was Dotcom. I can understand that it traumatized you in a way, I wasn't even born there yet 😂😂😂 The company from back then and today have very little to do with each other. At the time, they were just a very young telecommunications group, so the perfect prey for the dotcom crash, today they are a huge tech conglomerate.

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Chris@Multibagger

@PikaPika0105 That's not quite right. The decline at the time was largely due to the close ties between the CEO, who is still in office, and other companies. At the time, he was responsible for the close relationship with Cisco, on whose board he was also a member. Both suffered the same fate.
I didn't suffer any trauma from that. I also earned a lot of money back then before the collapse. But a few investments like that stick in the memory, especially when the main players are the same as they were 25 years ago

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Chris@Multibagger

@PikaPika0105 but you are an expert on Asia/Japan. I'm sure you know more about this than I do 😉 So thank you very much for your detailed comments. In any case, I take a very critical view of participation in Open AI.

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