🔬 Corporate#82 Tokyo, Japan· Est. 2014
Preferred Networks — Robotics AI
Japan's most valuable AI startup, specializing in applying deep learning to physical robots. PFN built Menoh inference engine and robot manipulation systems for Toyota and NTT.
deep learning for roboticsmanipulationautonomous drivingsimulation
Notable achievements
Japan's highest-valued AI startup ($2B+), Toyota research collaboration, NTT robot arm learning, Menoh inference engine, ICRA best paper awards.
Notable work
Menoh engineToyota collaboration
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
LOCOMOTION
Open access
ChainFlow-VLA: Causal Flow Planning with Vision-Language Models
Xiyang Wang, Xinlin Wang, Tingguang Zhou +7 more
2026