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Demonstration

Hitachi, Ltd. Los Angeles office organized the 8th Hitachi Celebrate Science Day event collaborated with California Science Center at Los Angeles. This is a Southern California Regional Community Action Committee annual event, to promote Hitachi products and help the students at underprivileged area to get chance to explore STEM program. Hitachi America R&D robotics team was invited to demonstrate EMIEW3 and teach the students how to design robot.

(November 2018)

Technology Overview

Vision Design

How can people build one-on-one trust, in a world where they demonstrate their originality through gig work?

(November 2018)

Research Base

Hitachi has developed automated cell mass culture equipment for iPS cells through open innovation and collaboration with Kyoto University and Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma. We will contribute to regenerative medicine, which has received attention as a new medical field, to achieve radical cure.

(October 2018)

Collaboration Space

Hitachi Open Lab Yokohama

Hitachi Open Lab Yokohama is a place for prototyping and value verification using Hitachi's cutting-edge technologies, as a process of collaborative creation with customers and partenrs to achieve open innovation together.

A MONOZUKURI environment of the future providing both information technology (IT) such as supply chain simulation as well as operational technology (OT) such as work-anomaly detection and robotics. Visions for future MONOZUKURI will be co-created with industrial customers through MONOZUKURI in which humans, things, facilities and process are connected to each other.

An environment to accurately "scan" and grasp specifications and usage of current IT systems, and efficiently test the quality of new systems being considered. Specifications for the next-generation system with newly-added functions can be quickly co-created based on "scan" results.

A simulated environment for transportation systems such as railway, bus, trucks and private vehicles. Visions for future transportation systems will be co-created with transport-related customers through technologies for data analytics, artificial intelligence, simulation and system collaboration that enable the rapid validation required when integrating and optimizing various tasks such as timetable scheduling, traffic management, operational control, maintenance, etc. for railways.

An environment equipped with cutting-edge data processing & analytics, artificial intelligence, open-source software (OSS) and DevOps (development & operations) to experience the benefits of IoT data utilization. Solutions to technical challenges in data utilization are co-created with customers using actual data.

An environment to visualize the potential security threats in customer systems and experience the effectiveness of countermeasures using cutting-edge IoT-era security technologies such as data analytics, artificial intelligence and simulation, applying know-how related to the secure operation of large-scale systems. Security measures with high cost performance are co-created to resolve customers’ security-related challenges.

 

(August 2018)

Technology Overview

Vision Design

Rails have assisted the growth of communities by transporting people and products. However, the spread of e-commerce and telework may change the reason why people need transportation. People would be given more priority to think about their activities in their community.
Their expectations to rails may change depending on the maturity of the community: shifting to something that goes beyond transportation.

(July 2018)

Technology Overview

Feature: Regenerative Medicine

"Contributing to society through the development of superior, original technology and products" has been Hitachi's corporate credo since its inception. Even in the area of research, Hitachi is involved in basic research, building on this foundation to take on the challenges of cutting-edge technology to contribute to resolving challenges in society. This article interviews Dr. Shizu Takeda, Manager of the Hitachi Kobe Laboratory on research in "Regenerative Medicine." Hitachi has been conducting research in this field since 2002, and moved its research base to the Kobe Biomedical Innovation Cluster (Kobe-shi, Hyogo, Japan) in 2017, to begin activity as the Hitachi Kobe Laboratory. Working with partner companies and other research institutions, research & development is being pursued in the form of open innovation.

(July 2018)

Demonstration

Hitachi's human symbiotic service robot, was invited to participate in the VIP Halcyon Dialogue Robotics Showcase held on the September 28, 2017. EMIEW3 was developed as a human symbiotic robot, to provide services in a human-centric environment, such as supporting or guiding people in public facilities. The Robotics team at the Global Center for Social Innovation - North America (CSI-NA), was joined by colleagues from CTI-ME in Japan, to demonstrate some of EMIEW3's capabilities.

(March 2018)

Technology Overview

Vision Design

Avatars who support teachers and students with diverse needs and backgrounds.

(March 2018)

Borrowing, lending and decluttering for a simpler life in a small house.

(March 2018)

Eating out of home worry free to encourage socialization..

(March 2018)

Staying with the elderly, from providing daily support to preventing cognitive decline.

(March 2018)

Smart homes and buildings respond to virus outbreaks by changing your environment.

(March 2018)

Patrolling robots in the town provide a visible response and reassurance to residents.

(March 2018)

Proof of Concept Demonstration

This is a field test of guidance service using a humanoid robot "EMIEW 3" held at Haneda Airport in October 2017. EMIEW 3 learns new phrases by providing facility/store guidance and taking a customer to his destination.[

(February 2018)

Technology Overview

Hitachi is engaged in R&D to measure and analyze people's happiness using wearable sensors.

(February 2018)