Hitachi
Japanese industrial and digital conglomerate building physical AI under its HMAX portfolio
About
Hitachi Ltd. is a Tokyo-listed conglomerate spanning digital systems, energy, mobility and industrial equipment. It reported revenue of ¥10.59 trillion for the fiscal year ended March 2026 and about 290,000 employees. Its HMAX portfolio packages AI for social infrastructure and industry, and in September 2026 it signed a physical AI partnership with FANUC.
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- PartnershipHitachi and FANUC pair edge AI chips with industrial robots, aiming for a global physical AI rollout from fiscal 2027
- PartnershipHitachi and Agile Robots agree to build a shared physical AI brain for factories, sold through HMAX Industry
- FundingD-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers
- IndustryNVIDIA pitches factory digital twins and Thor robot computers as the toolkit for US reindustrialization, enlisting Foxconn, Siemens, FANUC and four robot developers