As manufacturers face growing pressure to achieve carbon neutrality and cope with rising energy costs, improving energy efficiency at large-scale factories has become an urgent priority. Optimizing HVAC systems, which account for a significant share of electricity consumption in factories, is particularly challenging because companies must balance two seemingly conflicting goals: maintaining a comfortable working environment and reducing energy use. Toyota Motor Corporation h

Japan is embarking on a historic socio-economic transformation, executing a massive national strategy to integrate its artificial intelligence, data utilization, and robotics policies. This unified policy push aims to realize the widespread deployment of Physical AI—systems where intelligence interacts directly with the physical world—to secure Japan's industrial competitiveness in a rapidly changing global economy. The initiative represents a profound shift from purely virtu

At Humanoids Summit Tokyo 2026 (held in Tokyo on May 28–29, 2026), Hanya Huang, Operation Partner at High Torque Robotics, presented Mini Pi and Mini Pi+, the company’s compact bipedal and full-body humanoid platforms. Her central argument was that humanoid development will not scale through better AI models alone: developers also need affordable, modular hardware, stable control infrastructure, simulator-compatible software, and accessible documentation. During the live demo