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

$9984 (-4,33%) . $6506 (-0,72%)

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

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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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Very exciting update, thanks for sharing. Seeing SoftBank and Yaskawa in a joint robotics setup doesn't really surprise me. Yaskawa brings the industrial depth, SoftBank brings capital, AI focus and their network of tech startups. For Japan, with its acute labor shortage, this combination is logical: more automation, more adaptive robotics, less dependence on demographic pressure.

However, I have a slightly different view of SoftBank itself. I was invested there for a while, but left before it became critical for me. The complete departure from Nvidia back then was a clear warning signal for me. SoftBank often jumps back and forth between topics, sometimes Vision Fund, sometimes aggressive start-up bets, then backtracking again. That's not the kind of stability I want to see in the long term as an investor.

Nevertheless, SoftBank remains interesting as a player, simply because of its access to AI start-ups and its size. It's just that the valuation is currently too high for me and the risk/reward ratio is not attractive enough. If they come back to a reasonable level, I may well pick them up again as a trade position. Until then, I'll just keep an eye on the whole thing and see how this robotics track really develops.
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I find $7012 interesting from a chart perspective. Hangs on the 200-day line.
Maybe I'll put my foot in the door
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