Japan's Big Three Robot Makers Pick One Platform
FANUC, Yaskawa, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries join NVIDIA's open Cosmos coalition, unifying industrial robotics software for the first time and shifting competition away from proprietary robot OS layers.
Google and Fanuc turn 1.1M factory robots into AI agents
Fanuc and Google announced a partnership to embed Gemini AI into the world's largest installed base of industrial robots, triggering a 16% stock surge and signaling a shift from selling hardware to licensing software capability.