{"id":547221,"date":"2026-07-28T03:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/547221\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T03:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:18:18","slug":"japanese-university-startups-develop-ai-robot-arms-for-delicate-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/547221\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese university startups develop AI robot arms for delicate tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260727N robot hand holding sushi\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A Real Touch robot holds a piece of sushi. (Photo by Anna Sato)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">OSAKA &#8212; Startups based out of Japanese universities are working to commercialize physical artificial intelligence by developing technologies that let robots grasp objects with human-like flexibility, attracting the attention of companies like Toyota Motor with their potential to save labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Real Touch robot holds a piece of sushi. (Photo by Anna Sato) OSAKA &#8212; Startups based out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,12116,363,364,115150,28642,1036,111,139,69,5149,1046,45056,145,1528],"class_list":["post-547221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-arms","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-delicate","tag-develop","tag-japanese","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-robot","tag-startups","tag-tasks","tag-technology","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}