ELYZA Robotics
KDDI group physical-AI company building robot foundation models and deploying robots in Japanese retail, logistics and factories
Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2026.
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ELYZA Robotics, Inc., based in Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, began operating on Oct 1, 2026 as the KDDI group's centre of excellence for physical AI, combining staff from KDDI, KDDI Research and the language-model developer ELYZA. It develops vision-language and vision-language-action robot foundation models, egocentric data collection and simulation tools, and platforms for distributed inference, remote monitoring and multi-robot coordination, and sources industrial, quadruped and humanoid robots from other makers for customer deployments. The KDDI group plans JPY 30 billion of R&D spending and more than 300 specialists by fiscal 2030, with a target of over 1,000 robots in use. Capital is JPY 100 million; the president is Yuya Soneoka.
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- Japan