Notice Regarding Participation in STATION Ai’s Project to Build a Physical AI Data Ecosystem for the Manufacturing Industry

CKD Corporation (Headquarters: Komaki City, Aichi Prefecture; Representative: Katsuhito Okuoka, President and CEO) will participate in the Project to Build a Physical AI Data Ecosystem for the Manufacturing Industry being led by STATION Ai Corp.

1．Project Overview
Aiming to build the data ecosystems required to use physical AI robots in the manufacturing industry, this project is supported by Generative AI Accelerator Challenge (GENIAC), an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) to strengthen Japan’s ability to develop generative AI and implement it in real-world situations.
Over a period of up to two years from FY2026 to FY2028, STATION Ai Corp. will serve as the lead organization for collecting and accumulating multimodal data on manufacturing site worker movements and working environments to promote the development of data infrastructure that can be applied to AI learning.
This move will facilitate the introduction and use of physical AI robots in the manufacturing industry, with the aim of improving productivity, addressing labor shortages, and resolving other issues faced by manufacturing sites.

2. CKD’s Role
As part of this project, CKD will leverage its knowledge on production technology and automation cultivated at manufacturing sites, and cooperate in arranging the requirements for target tasks, acquiring data, and verifying the effectiveness of the collected data. CKD will determine the target processes through discussions with project stakeholders, and will contribute to the utilization of physical AI robots, as well as to the building of data ecosystems, that address the actual issues faced by manufacturing sites.

3. Future Outlook
Through this project, CKD will accumulate knowledge of introducing physical AI and utilizing data. CKD will use this knowledge to promote the automation, quality stabilization, and autonomy of its manufacturing processes and apply it to future product development and customer proposals.

*In addition to CKD, Aisan Industry Co., Ltd., and TOKAI RIKA CO., LTD., will participate in this project as manufacturing industry partners.

STATION Ai Corp.
https://stationai.co.jp/en

Aisan Industry Co., Ltd.
https://www.aisan-ind.co.jp/en/index.html

TOKAI RIKA CO., LTD.
https://www.tokai-rika.co.jp/en/

About GENIAC
https://geniac.meti.go.jp/english/index.html