ManmaruAI Selected for SPARK 2026
October 7, 2026
ManmaruAI Inc. has been selected for the 2026 SPARK accelerator program at SUMIDA INNOVATION CORE.
About the program
SPARK (SUMIDA PROTOTYPE ACCELERATION KIT) supports startups and manufacturing companies with business planning and co-creation. Support for the 2026 participants began in October, with a demo day planned for February 2027.
Our selected project
The official participant announcement lists our co-creation theme as “墨田区の製造現場で再現可能な自動化ロボの開発改良” (developing and improving automation robots that can be deployed reproducibly in manufacturing workplaces in Sumida). Through the program, we will work on developing and improving robots suited to the needs of these workplaces.
ManmaruAI supports organizations across industries with generative AI workflow automation, computer vision, and AI robotics, tailored to their operational challenges.
Related work
Public resources for Manmaru YOR, our dual-arm mobile robot for Physical AI research, are introduced in our October 7, 2026 article. Read about the public resources