{"id":243938,"date":"2026-09-11T17:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/japanese-startup-bets-iron-man-inspired-homes-can-beat-humanoids"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:04:06","slug":"japanese-startup-bets-iron-man-inspired-homes-can-beat-humanoids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/japanese-startup-bets-iron-man-inspired-homes-can-beat-humanoids","title":{"rendered":"Japanese startup bets Iron Man-inspired homes can beat humanoids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-startup-bets-iron-man-inspired-homes-can-beat-humanoids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tokyo-based startup MW is offering homes with built-in robotic housekeeping arms, a counter to a global embrace of humanoids.<\/p>\n<p>MW aims to sell its first robot-equipped home in Tokyo by 2028 and build as many as 10,000 units a year by 2035, the equivalent of 5% of new homes now being built in Japan, according to CEO Shuzo Narita.<\/p>\n<p>Japan helped pioneer bipedal robots decades ago, but MW is taking a different path from the humanoid boom now sweeping China and much of the rest of the world. Instead of trying to build a human-shaped machine capable of navigating obstacles in a lived-in space, the startup is embedding robotics into buildings. It\u2019s betting that specialized machines attached to ceilings and walls can more effectively tackle household chores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo-based startup MW is offering homes with built-in robotic housekeeping arms, a counter to a global embrace of humanoids. MW aims to sell its first robot-equipped home in Tokyo by 2028 and build as many as 10,000 units a year by 2035, the equivalent of 5% of new homes now being built in Japan, according [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}