Physical AI Opens at Tokyo Big Sight: Japan's Last Window to Save ‘Made in Japan’
· Source: techtimes.com
In short
The Sangyou DX Sougou Ten 2026 Summer Tokyo, Japan's largest industrial digital transformation expo, opened with a focus on Physical AI technologies aimed at preserving Japan's manufacturing expertise as skilled workers retire. The expo highlights innovations such as the THINKLET wearable device that records first-person video to capture tacit knowledge and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to analyze skilled work, addressing Japan's critical knowledge transfer crisis amid demographic challenges. Sessions also tackle broader industry challenges including logistics optimization and smart city infrastructure development.
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Tags: manufacturing, physical AI, wearables, logistics, automation, knowledge transfer