{"id":317262,"date":"2026-02-03T01:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/317262\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:18:12","slug":"softbank-fanuc-turn-to-partners-as-robotics-and-ai-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/317262\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank, Fanuc turn to partners as robotics and AI merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260202N fanuc booth at robot expo\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japan&#8217;s largest supplier of industrial robots, Fanuc, hosts a booth at an expo in December.\u00a0(Photo by Hiromi Sato)<\/p>\n<p>YUSUKE YAGI and EISAKU NITTA<\/p>\n<p>February 3, 2026 06:50 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; As the rise of artificial intelligence reshapes the robotics industry, Japanese companies are trying to catch up on\u00a0&#8220;physical AI&#8221; robots by acquiring partners or offering open source software.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s largest supplier of industrial robots, Fanuc, hosts a booth at an expo in December.\u00a0(Photo by Hiromi Sato)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,123885,19,17,153892,11470,1222,1384,82,153891],"class_list":["post-317262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-eire","tag-fanuc","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-merge","tag-partners","tag-robotics","tag-softbank","tag-technology","tag-turn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116004067951978622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}