FastLabel Inc. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Takeshi Suzuki; hereinafter “FastLabel”), a company that supports the development of robot base models and domain-specific VLA models, announces its membership in the AI Robot Association (Headquarters: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo; Chairman: Tetsuya Ogata; English name: AI Robot Association; hereinafter “AIRoA”).【Background of Membership】FastLabel supports the advancement of AI in Japan by providing both professional services and products to develop high-quality, large-scale datasets essential for AI technologies. Guided by its purpose, “Creating AI infrastructure to bring Japan back to a ‘world-class’ level,” the company works to strengthen the foundation for next-generation industrial innovation. In alignment with the founding mission of the AIRoA to revolutionize robot development technology through the integration of robots and AI, and to promote the broader societal adoption of robots, FastLabel has decided to join the association. By leveraging FastLabel's expertise in data-centric AI development and its capabilities for building large-scale datasets, the company aims to contribute to accelerating the practical deployment of AI robots and, ultimately, to further advancing the adoption of AI across Japanese industry.The AI Robot Association (AIRoA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to realizing a society in which robots play an active role across a wide range of fields through the integration of AI and robotics technologies. The organization promotes the collection of globally competitive datasets as well as the development and release of foundational models. With the goal of building a scalable robot data ecosystem to support the realization of advanced general-purpose robots, AIRoA plans to fully commence its activities in fiscal year 2025.FastLabel Inc. develops data infrastructure to support data-centric AI development, providing end-to-end capabilities spanning data collection and generation through annotation, model development, and DataOps implementation. In recent years, the company has also expanded its focus to the physical AI domain, including robotics, advancing the development of data pipelines that support robot foundation models and VLA model development.