HeartCore Partners with ONE AI to Bring Physical AI to Existing Industrial Robots in Japan
Key Highlights
- ➤HeartCore signs three-year Japan agency agreement with ONE AI for Axis.ONE
- ➤HeartCore earns 15%, 10%, and 8% tiered commissions on referred net revenue
- ➤Axis.ONE targets 4.6 million installed industrial robots without replacing existing equipment
- ➤ONE AI claims CPU-native deployments can reduce costs up to 90% versus GPU systems
- ➤HeartCore will coordinate Japanese manufacturer pilots and negotiate commercial agreements
Expert Statements
Sumitaka Kanno, Chief Executive Officer of HeartCore
“We believe ONE AI’s technology has the potential to transform how manufacturers put AI to work.”
Sumitaka Kanno, Chief Executive Officer of HeartCore
“Industrial robots have been extraordinarily precise for decades, but most still cannot see, adapt, or learn.”
Sumitaka Kanno, Chief Executive Officer of HeartCore
“Axis.ONE is designed to change that for the robots already installed on factory floors, without requiring manufacturers to replace systems they have spent years and significant capital building.”
Sumitaka Kanno, Chief Executive Officer of HeartCore
“We are proud to partner with ONE AI and, through HeartCore Financial, help bring Axis.ONE to manufacturers in Japan, one of the world’s leading robotics markets.”
In Chan (Colin) Baek, Chief Executive Officer of ONE AI
“Industrial robots should not have to be replaced in order to become intelligent.”
In Chan (Colin) Baek, Chief Executive Officer of ONE AI
“Our team spent more than two decades optimizing AI on Intel silicon, and Axis.ONE is the result: a single architecture that brings real-time AI to the machines factories already own, entirely on premises.”
In Chan (Colin) Baek, Chief Executive Officer of ONE AI
“Japan is home to many of the world’s most advanced manufacturers, and HeartCore’s local presence and experience as a Nasdaq-listed company make it an ideal partner as we enter the Japanese market.”
NEW YORK and TOKYO, Nov. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HeartCore Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTCR) (“HeartCore” or the “Company”), an IPO consulting services company based in Tokyo, today announced its wholly owned subsidiary, HeartCore Financial, has entered into a non-exclusive business development and sales agency agreement in Japan with ONE AI Co., Ltd. (“ONE AI”), a Korean developer of CPU-native, on-device physical AI led by former Intel APAC AI leadership.
The partnership will introduce Axis.ONE, ONE AI’s physical AI platform designed to add an AI “brain” to the robots, cameras and industrial PCs manufacturers already operate. Deployed on standard Intel-architecture industrial PCs and edge devices, Axis.ONE is designed to bring vision, perception, decision-making and continuous learning to existing industrial systems while keeping customer data and models on-site.
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