Tokyo AI data-infrastructure company building robotics/physical-AI datasets and VLA-model pipelines, backed by Panasonic, Marubeni and NTT DOCOMO.
FastLabel Inc. is a Japanese AI data-infrastructure company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Tokyo, providing high-quality, large-scale training data and DataOps tooling for data-centric AI development. The company spans the full data lifecycle, from data collection and generation through annotation, model development, and DataOps implementation, delivered as both professional services and software products.
In 2026 FastLabel launched a full-scale Physical AI business and established a dedicated Robotics AI Business Division to strengthen its consulting and technology-development capabilities for domestic and international markets. Its robotics practice designs data strategies and pipelines that capture robot behavior to create reusable, continuously refined datasets, and it supports the development of robotics foundation models and domain-specific Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. FastLabel operates a dedicated training center for large-scale AI robot data generation and collection, gathering diverse robotic datasets to customer specifications including teleoperated demonstrations and first-person-perspective video. The company serves large enterprises and startups across autonomous driving, medical AI, robotics, and manufacturing, with clients and investors including Panasonic, Sharp, NTT DOCOMO, and Marubeni. Panasonic invested through its Kurashi Visionary Fund, and Marubeni and NTT DOCOMO Ventures are also backers. FastLabel positions itself as a builder of AI infrastructure intended to return Japan to a world-leading level in physical and applied AI, bridging the gap between AI models and reliable, deployable real-world data.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Data pipelines that capture robot behavior to build reusable, continuously refined robotics datasets.
Company Facts
Founded
2020
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Software/Algorithm
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Primary Region
Asia-Pacific
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Ugo Corporation and FastLabel Inc. have launched a hands-on training program aimed at facilitating the development of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for companies, universities, and research institutions. This initiative utilizes the domestically produced humanoid robot, the "ugo Pro R&D model," to support participants from the initial stages of model development. The program, titled "ugo VLA Model Development Training Program powered by FastLabel," is designed to enhance practical skills and knowledge in the emerging field of VLA technology.
RobotStart.info May 27, 2026