MW
About
About MW
Living Home treats the building itself as a physical-AI platform. Sensors, connected fixtures and spatial data are incorporated during architectural design so the home can observe occupancy, environmental conditions and equipment state. A residential operating layer coordinates devices, software services and later robotic systems through one representation of the property.
The approach is intended to avoid the fragmentation created when each appliance or robot maps and interprets the home independently. Developers and residents can introduce security, energy, care and domestic-automation functions through shared infrastructure while retaining physical controls and human oversight. MW reported more than ten active Living Home projects and raised JPY 3 billion in seed funding in June 2026 to expand design, software and deployment.
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Supply
Supply chain relationships
- FastLabel
Inbound - robotics and autonomy data infrastructure - FastLabel is providing data-production architecture, tooling and operating support for MW’s residential robot foundation-model programme
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Funding
- 2026-06-11 - Seed - $19.2M - MW raises JPY 3 billion seed funding for Living Home residential physical AI
MW completed cumulative seed financing of JPY 3 billion to accelerate Living Home commercialization, robotics R&D, platform development and hiring. - source: prtimes.jp
Investors
- ALPHA - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-11
- FFG Venture Business Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-11
- GMO AI & Robotics - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-11
- Lo Enterprises - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-11
- Minato Financial Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-11
- Mitsubishi UFJ Capital - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-06-11
- Shinnosuke Honjo - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-11
- SMBC Edge - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-11
- Spiral Innovation Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-11
- Susumu Omori - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-11
- Zenkoku Hosho Innovation Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-11
Team
- Shuzo Narita - Co-Founder & CEO - Co-founded MW.
- Hikaru Ohno - Co-Founder & Creative Director - Co-founder and creative lead.
- Yoshiki Matsuda - Co-Founder & Chief Architect - Co-founded MW.
- Manabu Asaya - Head of AI / Robotics - Leads MW.
- Kyosuke Kato - Chief Strategy Officer
- Nobuhiro Furukawa - Head of Construction - Leads MW.
- Hiroatsu Tanaka - Hardware Designer
- Takuji Ikeda - Application Designer - Application design.
- Tetsuya Ogata - Technical Advisor - Technical advisor.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-10 - Demonstration - MW demonstrates robot prototype performing household tasks in a trailer home
The live presentation showed the prototype carrying out household work in a residential setting. MW is developing the robot together with its MW Intelligence software and Living Home architecture for Japanese homes. The presentation was the company’s first media demonstration of the moving prototype.
Source - 2026-09-10 - Partnership - FastLabel begins building MW’s home-robot AI Data Factory
The planned facility will recreate household work across dozens of task booths, including laundry, bathroom cleaning, bed making and kitchen tidying. Wearable direct-teaching systems will capture human demonstrations for robot training. MW is targeting 50,000 hours of data collection annually and 150,000 hours over three years.
Source - 2026-09-09 - Contract Award - MW selected for GENIAC residential robot foundation-model programme
The project combines MW bot, MW Intelligence and purpose-designed homes as one physical-AI development environment. Work will cover the next MW bot body, large-scale data collection, foundation-model development and validation in homes built by MW.
Source - 2026-06-11 - Funding - MW raises JPY 3 billion seed funding for Living Home residential physical AI
MW announced cumulative seed financing of JPY 3 billion on June 11, 2026. Use of proceeds includes Living Home development and sales, physical-AI and robotics R&D, platform work and hiring. MW said more than 10 Living Home projects were underway across urban, regional and resort locations.
Source - 2026-06-04 - Partnership - MW and FastLabel partner on home-robot data and foundation models
The work focuses on household-task data. The collaboration is a development programme, not a delivered commercial model.
Source - 2026-04-06 - Market Signal - MW details Living Home, MW bot and MW Cargo residential robotics architecture
MW described an approach that integrates robots into the home rather than selling a standalone home robot. The interview discussed MW bot, MW Cargo and rail-mounted movement inside the house. MW described imitation learning, reinforcement learning and a planned data factory for home robot learning.
Source - 2024-02-14 - Company Formation - MW is founded to build Living Home residential physical-AI systems
MW lists February 14, 2024 as its establishment date. The company describes Living Home as next-generation housing using physical AI. The company is based in Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo.
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Relations
Relationships
- FastLabel
Technology Partner - FastLabel is helping MW design and establish a large-scale home-robot AI Data Factory.
- METI / NEDO GENIAC
Research Contract - MW was selected for the GENIAC residential robot foundation-model development programme.
Context
Market context
Living Home
Context tags
- Embodied AI - Capability - MW describes residential physical AI and robot foundation-model work for homes.
- Home robotics environments - Customer Environment - MW develops Living Home for robot-enabled residential spaces.
- Ambient AI Home Interface - Capability - Living Home combines sensors, AI and integrated home control.
- Pilot Stage Robotics - Commercial Stage - MW disclosed early named Living Home projects and a robotics demo roadmap.
Commercial
- MW selected for GENIAC residential robot foundation-model programme
2026-09-09 · Order / contract · METI and NEDO selected MW’s residential robot foundation-model project for Japan’s GENIAC programme.
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