Kawasaki Begins Business Study with Fujitsu Toward the Social Implementation of Physical AI ― Aiming to Provide New Solutions in the Healthcare Field —

Tokyo, July 16, 2026 — Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. today announced the start of a business study with Fujitsu Limited in the field of physical AI. To accelerate the social implementation of physical AI and help realize a society in which people and robots coexist and collaborate, Kawasaki and Fujitsu will conduct a business study aimed at providing new solutions that integrate hospital business systems, such as electronic medical records, with robot systems and AI in the healthcare field, including hospitals.

Fujitsu is developing software and hardware interfaces that will serve as a common platform for linking robots, equipment, and AI, with the aim of advancing the social implementation of physical AI. Through this initiative, Fujitsu aims to realize a system that facilitates integration with a variety of robots and equipment and enables more advanced autonomous control. Fujitsu has now begun a business study, together with major Japanese robot manufacturers including Kawasaki, with a view to utilizing this common platform across a wide range of industrial fields. Looking ahead, Fujitsu aims to make this common platform widely available, thereby contributing to the social implementation of physical AI across industries.

Together with Fujitsu, which shares this same vision, Kawasaki aims to provide innovative solutions for the healthcare field, which faces the common global challenges of an aging population and labor shortages. By combining the advanced technological capabilities in robotics that Kawasaki has cultivated over many years with Fujitsu’s highly reliable computing technology and software development capabilities, the two companies will work to enable robots to autonomously execute tasks based on optimized plans triggered by instructions from in-hospital business systems. This includes automating the in-hospital transport of medications and specimens, as well as realizing AI agents for functions such as outpatient reception and guidance services.

In May 2026, to accelerate Japan-U.S. collaboration in the fields of AI and semiconductors, Kawasaki established the “Kawasaki Physical AI Center San Jose” in Silicon Valley, the United States, as a hub for promoting the social implementation of physical AI. Kawasaki is currently promoting collaboration with leading global players engaged in AI and semiconductor-related technology development, including Fujitsu, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Analog Devices, as well as with academic institutions. As a first step, Kawasaki aims to establish a “hospital one-stop solution” that covers the entire in-hospital experience from arrival and examination to diagnosis, treatment, surgery, and post-care through the integration of physical AI and robotics.

Kawasaki also announced it intends to join the NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition to advance open world models with Cosmos technologies. The resulting world models will help Japanese companies test and optimize physical AI systems before deployment, shortening development cycles across factories, logistics networks, farms, construction sites, hospitals, roads and homes.

To achieve both the resolution of diverse societal challenges and sustainable business growth, Kawasaki will work to provide innovative, field-driven solutions that combine Kawasaki Group products and NVIDIA’s AI and simulation technologies, for its own operations and for other companies, leveraging the data, know-how it has accumulated over many years at manufacturing sites, as well as its global partnerships. To this end, Kawasaki will actively expand its investment in physical AI, including R&D and strategic alliances, and further accelerate its efforts toward social implementation.

Comments

Takahito Tokita, Representative Director, CEO of Fujitsu
We are greatly encouraged by the opportunity to advance the real-world deployment of Physical AI together with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, a leader not only in the robotics industry but also in critical social infrastructure sectors such as mobility and industrial plants. We are confident that this collaboration, which combines Kawasaki’s robotics technologies and extensive operational expertise gained through real-world deployment with Fujitsu’s strengths in computing and software development, will deliver new value in the healthcare and nursing care sectors, where significant challenges continue to grow.
By integrating our technologies, we aim to safely and effectively connect robots, healthcare and nursing care information systems, other business applications, and human workers, enabling the optimization and automation of operations across hospitals and care facilities.
Together, we will work to establish robots capable of flexible decision-making and safe, autonomous operation in response to real-world conditions as a foundational element of social infrastructure. Through this effort, we will contribute to sustainable growth across a wide range of industries while helping to address critical societal challenges.

Yasuhiko Hashimoto, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
We have high expectations that this collaboration will generate significant synergies between our companies and accelerate the social implementation of Physical AI. Today, the healthcare and nursing care sectors face serious challenges, including ageing populations and labor shortages. Addressing these issues through the creation of new solutions leveraging robotics and AI is an urgent priority.
Kawasaki possesses robotics technologies that are widely utilized across a broad range of industries, as well as extensive operational data and expertise accumulated over many years. By combining these strengths with Fujitsu’s advanced IT capabilities and digital platforms, we are confident that we can realize a hospital one-stop solution that safely and efficiently connects every stage of the patient journey—from hospital admission and consultation to treatment, surgery, and post-operative care—thereby helping to address critical healthcare challenges.
Through this partnership with Fujitsu, we aim not only to advance technology development but also to co-create solutions that take root in real-world settings and contribute to improving the quality of healthcare. Together, we will deliver new value to the global healthcare and nursing care sectors.

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