AI Robot Association (AIRoA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing AI-powered robotics by building open datasets, foundation models, and collaborative platforms that accelerate real-world robot development.
While Japan has a strong foundation in robotics, we believe the humanoid robotics field requires a more global perspective to move faster.
Embracing international talent is essential for us to close the gap and compete on a global stage.
Open & Research-Driven Engineering
AIRoA is launching a large-scale project to collect over one million hours of humanoid robot operation data from hundreds of robots. Using this real-world data, we aim to build one of the world’s most advanced Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.
Open Data & Model Ecosystem
What makes AIRoA unique is its commitment to openness at unprecedented scale. We are building an open robot data ecosystem where datasets, trained models, and benchmarks are publicly released and accessible to everyone.
Global & Collaborative Community
AIRoA brings together researchers and engineers from universities, research institutes, and companies worldwide. We work closely with leading experts across academia and industry, using English as a common language to enable global collaboration.
Data-Centric & Model-First Development
We believe progress in embodied AI starts with high-quality, large-scale data. Our work focuses on real-world robot data collection, reproducible training pipelines, and global evaluation frameworks—supporting research from simulation-to-real transfer to multimodal and tactile learning.