Announced details
Timee has access to more than 460,000 sites (registered accounts) facing labor shortages.
The companies have entered into a co-creation partnership. Timee will consider worker recruitment and matching, the creation of work opportunities and operational support, while ZEALS will use its expertise in the development, deployment and operation of D1 to define data, design data-collection operations and organize ancillary operations at sites where robots are deployed. No capital or personnel relationship has been disclosed.
Head office: Meguro-ku, Tokyo. Representative Director: Shimizu Masahiro (清水正大). Develops and provides communication experiences for companies and consumers in areas including AI agents, AI avatars and robotics. Develops, deploys and operates the quasi-domestic compact humanoid robot D1.
Timee has access to more than 460,000 sites (registered accounts) facing labor shortages.
In this announcement the company addresses none of Contract Value / Offering price / Impact on Business Performance.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Names of Products / Services Covered | タイミー, D1 (D-One) |
| Counterparty | ZEALS Co., Ltd. |
| Counterparty overview | Head office: Meguro-ku, Tokyo. Representative Director: Shimizu Masahiro (清水正大). Develops and provides communication experiences for companies and consumers in areas including AI agents, AI avatars and robotics. Develops, deploys and operates the quasi-domestic compact humanoid robot D1. |
| Relationship with the Company | The companies have entered into a co-creation partnership. Timee will consider worker recruitment and matching, the creation of work opportunities and operational support, while ZEALS will use its expertise in the development, deployment and operation of D1 to define data, design data-collection operations and organize ancillary operations at sites where robots are deployed. No capital or personnel relationship has been disclosed. |
| Contract Date | 27 August 2026 |
| Applicable area | Collection of real-world data for training and improving physical AI, Support for the deployment and operation of humanoid robots, Healthcare and Nursing Care, Manufacturing and Logistics, Hotels |
| Location scale | Timee has access to more than 460,000 sites (registered accounts) facing labor shortages. |
| Usage history | Timee has access to more than 460,000 sites (registered accounts) facing labor shortages. |
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The company's own explanation, not something inferred from the numbers.Both companies believe that training and improving physical AI requires data incorporating the physical aspects of how people work and make decisions in the real world, and that it is important to establish a framework for collecting such data in Japan.