The Future of Infrastructure: Robots, Digital Twins and Physical AI – 2026 Tokyo Global Summit Keynote With iXs CTO

Infrastructure owners and contractors worldwide face aging assets, labor shortages, and rising safety and productivity demands — just as robotics, BIM, digital twins, and AI open new ways to build, inspect, and maintain infrastructure. Drawing on applications from Japan’s construction sector, this keynote delivered by iXs CTO Fuminori Yamasaki explored how autonomous robots, continuously updated digital twins, and emerging Physical AI are converging into a connected vision of intelligent infrastructure — one where sensing, understanding, and decision support work together for safer, smarter, more resilient systems.