{"id":549325,"date":"2026-07-29T09:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/549325\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:32:15","slug":"japans-genki-robotics-to-launch-first-product-this-year-says-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/549325\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Genki Robotics to launch first product this year, says CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/editor-s-picks\/interview\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Android co-founder Andy Rubin plans smartphone-like ecosystem for hardware and software<\/p>\n<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\/9\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260721 Genki Robotics CEO Andy Rubin interview\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Andy Rubin, chief executive of Genki Robotics, told Nikkei Asia that the company plans to open up its operating system to outside developers, allowing them to create and sell new robot behaviors through an app-store-like marketplace. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Genki Robotics plans to launch its first product this year, founder and chief executive Andy Rubin told Nikkei Asia, as the Tokyo-based startup moves toward commercial deployment following a recent fundraising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview Android co-founder Andy Rubin plans smartphone-like ecosystem for hardware and software Andy Rubin, chief executive of Genki&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,3500,1888,269753,16847,3331,111,139,69,4460,13810,312,145,1961,379],"class_list":["post-549325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ceo","tag-first","tag-genki","tag-japans","tag-launch","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-product","tag-robotics","tag-says","tag-technology","tag-this","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549325","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=549325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}