Overview
- Inoki Genki Factory, AVITA, and SMBC Value Creation unveiled the initiative at a Feb. 19 launch event in Tokyo tied to Inoki’s Feb. 20 birthday.
- Inoki Genki Factory leads the project with AVITA, which is headed by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, with SMBC Value Creation as a partner.
- Developers are targeting completion by Inoki’s 2027 birthday using humanoid robotics and AI to produce a lifelike android.
- Keisuke Inoki said the goal is to preserve his brother’s character and provide guidance to young people even 100 years from now.
- Ishiguro noted that physical abilities such as wrestling are a distant objective rather than something the android will do soon.