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- Softbank and Yaskawa Electric are collaborating on the social implementation of a new type of AI by exploiting AI-RAN
- They will carry out integration analysis of different types of data in real time to offer robots capable of multiskilled functionality in multiple roles
- Data from sensors, cameras and external systems is evaluated through ‘AI-driven decisions’
- Robots will take advanced actions based on situational judgements
Another day, another industry collaboration. This time it’s Japan’s Softbank Corp. and Yaskawa Electric Corp. agreeing to work together on what they describe as the social implementation of ‘physical AI’ utilising AI-RAN.
The two companies are jointly developing use cases for “office-oriented physical AI robots powered by AI running on MEC [multi-access edge computing]”. They will deploy AI-powered robots to assist in navigating office buildings and other environments where large numbers of people work together. This so-called physical AI will undertake complex tasks in “fluid environments” (but presumably not under water).
