【Robot Motion Data and Foundation Model Released】 As outcomes of a GENIAC-selected project jointly implemented by METI and NEDO, AIRoA has publicly released approximately 5,000 hours of cleansed robot motion data, a continually pretrained model based on π0.5, and its training source code, obtained through research, development, and validation using the HSR (Human Support Robot) mobile manipulator. Learn more▼ airoa.org/updates/20260803/4… #AIRoA #GENIAC #PhysicalAI

We are exhibiting at CEATEC 2026 Building robot foundation models for the world, right from Japan. Visit our booth to learn about our initiatives toward the social implementation of Physical AI, featuring live demonstrations on physical robots.We look forward to seeing you at our booth. 📅 October 13 (Tue) – 16 (Fri), 2026 📍 Makuhari Messe Hall 5 General Exhibits area NEDO Booth, “AI & Robotics” area (Booth No. 5H440) Exhibits: ・YUBI (Yielding Universal Bimanual Interface): A handheld device designed for collecting robot learning data ・Foundation Model Demo: Demonstration of a foundation model trained on YUBI-collected data, deployed on a Franka Research 3 robot that autonomously executes tasks based on language instructions ・Prototype Robots: Select prototype units developed in Japan’s national general-purpose robot development competition #CEATEC2026 #CEATEC #NEDO #AIRoA #Robotics #幕張メッセ #Physicalai

📢 AIRoA will participate in the 1st International Workshop on Industrial Applications of Robot Learning at #IROS2026 on Sep. 27 in Pittsburgh. AIRoA President Tetsuya Ogata will give an invited talk, while Head of AI and Robotics Kei Ota joins as an Organizer. From research to real-world deployment, the workshop will explore the future of industrial robot learning and recognize outstanding work through its Research Awards. 🔗 airoa.org/updates/20260921/7… #RobotLearning #PhysicalAI #Robotics #AIRoA

The Physical AI Summit wrapped up with a great reception! AIRoA Chairman Ogata @tetsuyaogata1presented our initiatives in robot foundation model development and data ecosystem building. After the evening reception leaders from industry, academia, and startups were brought together for rich invigorating discussions. Thank you to everyone who was able to joinus. Stay tuned for more from AIRoA. airoa.org #フィジカルAISummit #AIRoA #Robotics #PhysicalAI

Physical AI Summit is now open! AIRoA joins as a Special Supporting Sponsor. Prototype Exhibition: 9:00–17:00 Showcasing the latest prototypes from companies selected fromJapan's General-Purpose Robot Development Competition. Company Pitches: 9:50–10:30 Panel Discussion: from 14:20 Theme: "Challenges in Japan's Robot Supply Chain and Expectations for Government and Industry" Panelists: · Hiroyuki Osone (EmplifAI, President & CEO)@emplifai · Teruki Ito (NACHI-FUJIKOSHI, Deputy General Manager, Robot Development Div.) · Takashi Tokuda (Keigan, Representative Director & CEO)@KEIGAN_PR · Koichi Yamada (ugo, CTO)@ugo_robot Moderator: Secretary General Okada, AIRoA See Link for full program details. nextech-week.jp/aisummit/ja-… #フィジカルAISummit #AIRoA #Robotics #PhysicalAI

Today, September 15, AIRoA CTO Tatsuya Matsushima will join a panel discussion at “The 4th GMO Conference Autumn Physical AI 2026.” The session theme is: “Creating Training Data for Physical AI — Collecting in the Real World or Generating Synthetically?” The panel will discuss how real-world and synthetic data can be used together, the current state of training data, and key challenges around data collection and utilization from industry, government, and academic perspectives. A live stream will also be available — please tune in! ▼ Event details group.gmo/security/conferenc… #AIRoA #PhysicalAI #Robotics

AIRoA-related presentations at #RSJ2026 | Sep 4 9:00 | 3A1-01 Toward an Open Robot Foundation Model from Japan — AIRoA’s Data Ecosystem Vision Kei Ota 9:12 | 3A1-02 AIRoA MoMa 5k: A Large-Scale Compositional Mobile Manipulation Dataset and Continual Pretraining of VLAs Tatsuya Matsushima 10:32 | 3A2-02 See Less, Specify More: Visual Evidence Budgets for Generalizable VLAs Kei Ota 11:08 | 3A2-05 Personal Embodied Agent: A Robot That Grows as Part of the Family Yuga Yano 13:20 | 3A3-01 Vision-based 6DoF Gripper Pose Estimation with a Fiducial Cube for the Portable YUBI System Takehiko Ohkawa 13:56 | 3A3-04 Optimizing VLA Inference Under Robot Dynamics Constraints Kei Ota 14:44 | 3A3-08 Building a Real2Sim Conversion Platform Using 3D Reconstruction and Evaluating VLA Policies Takehiko Ohkawa 16:20 | 3B4-06 Data Collection with a Tactile-Sensing Portable Gripper and Training Tactile-Aware VLA Models Yuma Shin We look forward to seeing you at the presentations and at the AIRoA booth. #AIRoA #RSJ2026 #PhysicalAI #Robotics

AIRoA-related presentations at #RSJ2026 | Sep 2–3 ■ Sep 2 13:56 | 1D3-04 Building and Deploying an Experimental Platform for Continuous Autonomization of Home Service Robots Yuga Yano ■ Sep 3 9:12 | 2A1-02 Large-Scale Dataset Construction Using a Bimanual Humanoid Robot Kei Ota 9:36 | 2A1-04 Offline Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models with Counterfactual Supervision Kei Ota 10:32 | 2A2-02 YUBI: Yielding Universal Bidigital Interface for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation at Scale Takehiko Ohkawa 11:08 | 2A2-05 Continuous Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Kei Ota 11:32 | 2A2-07 Omni-Supervised Policy Learning for Robot Manipulation Tatsuya Matsushima 13:32 | 2A3-02 System Development Supporting Large-Scale Data Collection for Building Robot Foundation Models Takuya Okubo 14:44 | 2A3-08 Zero-shot Temporal Action Segmentation for Bimanual Gripper Manipulation Takehiko Ohkawa Hardware demos and VLA demonstrations will also be available at the AIRoA booth. #AIRoA #RSJ2026 #Robotics

AIRoA will be participating in RSJ2026, the 44th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan, held at Kanazawa University from September 1–4. Across the conference, AIRoA-related research will be presented in 16 talks covering robot foundation models, VLAs, large-scale data collection, YUBI, Personal Embodied Agents, and more. At the AIRoA booth, we will showcase YUBI and OpenArm hardware, along with a demo of a VLA model trained on data collected by AIRoA. Kei Ota and Tatsuya Matsushima will also serve as organizers of a special organized session. We look forward to meeting researchers, students, and industry partners at RSJ2026. Please stop by the AIRoA booth! Program▼ ac.rsj-web.org/2026/wp-conte… #AIRoA #RSJ2026 #PhysicalAI #Robotics

Join our open platform for large-scale robot data collection powered by YUBI (Yielding Universal Bidigital Interface)! ■ Key features of YUBI ・Lightweight gripper design — enables large-scale manipulation data collection with ease ・Fully open-source — hardware (CAD/3D data) and software fully available. No need to build from scratch. ・Reproducible deployment path — anyone can build and implement YUBI right away We will also be showcasing YUBI with a live demo at our booth at RSJ 2026 (September 2–4). Come stop by! ▼Please watch it here. youtu.be/o2pTYOngsho?si=2z0n… Special Thanks: @TOYOTA_FRC #AIRoA #Robotics #OpenSource #Engineers #RSJ2026

See where Japan’s general-purpose robotics stands today — all in one place. Each selected company has spent six months developing their prototype robot as part of the Domestic General-Purpose Robot Development Competition, commissioned by NEDO ■Exhibiting Companies: Enactic @enactic_ai / EmplifAI @emplifai/ HatsuMuv @HatsuMuv/ Keigan @KEIGAN_PR/ THK ＠THK_official_jp / ugo @ugo_robot / Fujikoshi Through exhibitions and live presentations, each team will share their specific approach to domestic general-purpose robot development.

The official website for the “Physical AI Summit 2026,” supported by AIRoA, is now live — speaker information also announced! See the current state of Japan’s general-purpose robot development through exhibitions and presentations by companies selected for the Domestic General-Purpose Robot Development Competition, featuring their prototype dual-arm mobile manipulators. Wednesday, September 16, 2026 Palace Hotel Tokyo 9:00-17:30 nextech-week.jp/aisummit/ja-… Program details will be updated on the official website as they are confirmed. #PhysicalAI #Robotics #AIRoA

We are excited to announce that AIRoA’s workshop proposal, “The UMI Arena,” has been accepted at CoRL 2026! At the UMI Arena, participating teams will compete by deploying their robot control policies on shared tasks in a common real-robot environment. To support model development, a subset of real-world robot manipulation data collected using the YUBI data-collection device will be provided exclusively to participating teams, together with a reference policy model and training code. We plan to expand the data available to participants in stages to approximately 20,000 hours by September 2026. The workshop will feature three tracks: ・Policy Competition ・Data-Collection Device Exhibition ・Paper and Poster Session Through these tracks, we aim to build a shared real-robot evaluation platform and advance the standardization of evaluation methods. Invited speakers are expected to include Shuran Song, Andy Zeng, Hao-Shu Fang, and Yang Gao. ■ November 12, 2026 | Austin, Texas Learn more ▼ airoa.org/updates/20260821/6… Workshop website ▼ umi-arena.airoa.io/ #AIRoA #CoRL2026 #RobotLearning #Robotics #PhysicalAI #YUBI

Prototype Showcase | Wed, Sep 16 | Palace Hotel Tokyo AIRoA will present the outcomes of the Domestic General-Purpose Robot Development Competition, conducted as part of a NEDO-commissioned project, at the Physical AI Summit, organized by RX Japan GK. The program will feature displays of prototype robots and presentations by participating companies. ■ Details and Registration To be announced on the official RX Japan website around mid-August. airoa.org/updates/20260805/5… #AIRoA #PhysicalAI #GeneralPurposeRobots

AIRoA Consolidates R&D and Corporate Functions at Its Heiwajima Facility AIRoA has consolidated R&D and corporate functions at its 3,500 m² #Heiwajima facility. The hub integrates robot data collection, foundation model R&D and validation using physical robots. Expanding to #Miraikan and #Kyoto. Learn more: airoa.org/updates/20260804/5… #AIRoA #PhysicalAI