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Solving Social Issues during the COVID-19 Pandemic

As of June 15, 2020, more than 7.8 million coronavirus cases have been confirmed globally, and over 430,000 people have lost their lives to the infection. Many people have asked themselves what they c...

Supporting the Continuity of Hypertension Treatment through Telemedicine

There are reportedly around 43 million hypertension patients in Japan. This means that around one-third of Japan's population suffers from hypertension. If left untreated, hypertension can increase th...

Towards Shaping the Factory of the Future

Germany, a leading manufacturing country in EU Germany, a major European manufacturing power has developed into one of the world's prominent economic powers through fierce development of their industr...

The Importance of Inclusion in the Workplace

According Marc Pritchard, Chief Brand Officer with Procter & Gamble in his Forbes interview, "I think that the 5 billion people in the world who we serve are looking around and saying, 'We need to...

Hope Meets Workforce Needs at Daley College's MTEC

Expansive new facility helps train the next generation of manufacturing professionals in Chicago Machining programs at community colleges can bring to mind images of old, tired equipment, housed in ...

Creating a Sustainable Society by Putting the OMRON Principles into Practice

The Sustainability of Society - An Urgent Issue The attention being paid to sustainability is increasing rapidly. According to a report issued in 2018 by the environmental preservation NGO World Wide ...

Industry 4.0 is Big and Confusing, So Start Small

BACK IN THE EARLY DAYS of the Internet, when new sites were popping up selling everything from office supplies to dog food, I told a friend that I would never shop on the Internet. Too sketchy and uns...

Emerson Launches New VR Simulation

Emerson reported it is introducing Mimic Field 3D, an immersive training experience designed to help new and incoming workers gain an understanding of how changes in the field impact industrial plant ...

United Nations Global Compact Unveils 'SDG Ambition' Impact Initiative

The United Nations Global Compact launched SDG Ambition a global impact initiative aimed at challenging and supporting companies to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into their core business...

Libelium's IoT Technology Supports Sustainable Development Goals

Following the United Nations call for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Libelium reported it is promoting IoT technology as a tool to achieve prosperity while protecting the planet. According ...

Tractica Offers Report on the Artificial Intelligence Software Market

According to a new report from Tractica, the top industry sectors where artificial intelligence (AI0 is likely to bring major transformation) remain those in which there is a clear business case for i...

Technology in 2050: will it save humanity - or destroy us?

Futurism is a mug's game: if you're right, it seems banal; if you're wrong, you look like the founder of IBM, Thomas Watson, when he declared in 1943 that there is room in the world "for maybe five co...

How tech is catering to the elderly and caregivers

At CES 2020, tech's biggest trade show, it was heartening to see that the tech industry is paying attention to the needs of the elderly and the younger people who provide care for the elderly. I've pa...

Tech trends to expect at this year's Consumer Electronics Show

Like with fashion and Instagram Story features that tell you what Disney character you are, the tech world is full of trends. The annual CES is a chance for tech companies from all around the world to...

Signposts of the VUCA Era, Co-Creating Future Scenarios

We are living in the VUCA era. A time of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. These FACTORS make Predicting the future is extremely difficult. OMRON, however, has used the SINIC theory ...

AI-powered devices are expanding its technology to cover all areas of health and fitness.

FEATURE: As in just about every area of the health and fitness market, technology is increasingly infiltrating yoga, with startups and investors pushing to capitalize on the $80 billion market. Germa...

What is a robot for Millennial Workers?

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The rise of populist politicians across the rich world has led to a profound rethinking of the way developed economies work. In particular, the impact of automation on the labor...

Tangoe Highlights 2020 Enterprise Technology Trends and Predictions

Tangoe revealed its predictions for the trends that will influence the enterprise in 2020, including more businesses capitalizing on IoT, automation and the next wave of digital transformation thanks ...

Technavio Issues Report on the Global Medical Device Security Solutions Market

In a new report, Technavio revealed that the global medical device security solutions market size is expected to grow by USD 301.04 million during 2020-2024. Technavio provided the following report hi...

Research and Markets Issues Report: Global 3D Pedometer Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global 3D Pedometer Market Size, Market Share, Application Analysis, Regional Outlook, Growth Trends, Key Players, Competitive Strategies and Fo...

Kyoto Considers Entering Japan's Nascent Local Green Bond Market

(Bloomberg) -- Japan's most-popular tourist city is exploring a possible sale of debt to finance environmental, social and governance projects, in what may be the country's only such municipal bond af...

Air bubble barrier traps plastic waste in Amsterdam's canals

The world's first rubbish barrier made entirely from bubbles has been unveiled in Amsterdam in an attempt to catch waste in the city's canals before it reaches the North Sea. A Dutch start-up, the Ams...

What difference can a multinational make? With the right management practices in place, a lot

The potential for multinational companies to tackle global issues such as poverty, climate change and gender inequality is immense. With their reach, they have the ability to transform low-income mark...

Research and Markets Releases Report

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "5G - Extending Human Eyesight, Extending Human Senses: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2020 to 2026" report to its offering...

Disability is Part of Individuality

When a diverse base of human resources unites in spirit under the OMRON Principles to take on all challenges, it becomes possible to create innovation driven by social needs through diversity, solving...

AI maps routes to heart disease

A new study in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics uses machine learning on unlabeled electronic health record (EHR) data to shed light on the emergence of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The study hi...

Tough Times for Manufacturers - Go to Market Faster with Sales Enablement

The other day, the S&P and Dow suffered their worst losses in over a month, primarily driven by data that showed manufacturing activity had contracted to its lowest point in over 10 years. And whi...

We Need a New Way to Measure Human Progress

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- At International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Washington, there will be much debate about slowing global growth, the impact of the U.S.-China trade war, the role of ...

This can be a pivotal moment for global health

As a global action plan to achieve health for all is launched at the United Nations General Assembly, Alex Harris explores what this means for research and innovation. Despite some brilliant progress,...

Bathroom Scale Combined with ECG for At Home Heart Failure Monitoring

Electrocardiography (ECG) remains the primary clinical tool for evaluating heart function, but it has significant limitations when assessing heart failure. Ballistocardiography (BCG), which detects th...

Circular economies are making zero waste a reality

Humans consume enormous amounts of natural resources. In 2017, worldwide material consumption reached 92.1 billion tons - about 250% more than the amount we consumed in 1970. We know that 91% of plast...

Work in Japan

Globalizing talent, that is, diversifying talent to accelerate innovation, is a critical task facing many of Japan's companies. The call for highly-skilled international personnel in Japan has been p...

New AI technology for advanced heart attack prediction

Human heart. Credit: copyright American Heart Association Technology developed using artificial intelligence (AI) could identify people at high risk of a fatal heart attack at least 5 years before it ...

At Qualcomm, 5G is headed everywhere and into virtually everything

It was easy to call 5G inevitable. Whatever it was, some next-generation cellular technology was certain to follow 2G, 3G, and 4G into the mainstream of global life. It was harder to predict that 5G w...

The Tech Innovations We Need to Happen if We're Going to Survive Climate Change

In the 1970s, the U.S. Department of Energy poured money into making practical a miraculous technology: the ability to convert sunlight into electricity. Solar energy was a pipe dream, far too expensi...

Technavio Releases Report on the Global Electrocardiography Devices (ECG) Market

In a new report, Technavio revealed that the global electrocardiography devices (ECG) market is expected to post a CAGR of over 6 percent during the period 2019-2023. Technavio provided the following ...

Deep learning AI may identify atrial fibrillation from a normal rhythm ECG

An artificial intelligence (AI) model has been found to identify patients with intermittent atrial fibrillation even when performed during normal rhythm using a quick and non-invasive 10 second test, ...

Research and Markets Releases Report: Utility 4.0

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Utility 4.0 - Impact of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) on the Global Power Industry" report to its offerings. In a release, Research and M...

University Of Cambridge Announces Science Based Target For Carbon Reduction

The University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom announced that it is the first university in the world to adopt a 1.5 degrees Science Based Target for carbon reduction, which will see it reduce its ...

How technology could be a solution to caregiver shortage for seniors

Young people may roll their eyes at older people who can't use technology as fast as they do, but it's wrong to say that older Americans can't use technology. Remember, a baby boomer, Tim Berners-Lee,...

"FROM THE FACTORY OF THE WORLD" --Kusatsu and Ayabe-- (Part Ⅱ)

"FROM THE FACTORY OF THE WORLD Kusatsu and Ayabe" introduces OMRON Kusatsu Plant and Ayabe Plant continue to challenge to realize high-quality manufacturing similar to mass production of small varieti...

OMRON Automation Americas Joins Forces with SDL and Dept to Launch New Website Across 4 Languages

SDL reported that OMRON Automation Americas has launched a new website across four markets and languages to support its digital growth strategy. According to a media release, designed, built and launc...

Lead from the top: What it takes to incorporate IoT into a legacy industry

IoT is a rapidly growing area of technology -- but not as rapidly growing as analysts expected it to be back in 2015. Spending on IoT is 70% behind where research firm McKinsey predicted in 2015 it wo...

Chest X-rays contain information that can be harvested with AI

The most frequently performed imaging exam in medicine "the chest X-ray" holds 'hidden' prognostic information that can be harvested with artificial intelligence (AI), according to a study by scientis...

The Forgotten Child Of Environmental Justice

One question to ask on the topic of unsustainability is while we are trying to regulate textile factories in Bangladesh to better social and environmental standards, are we also lowering our need to o...

Technavio Updates on the Logistics Robots Market

According to a Technavio Research Report, the Logistics Robots Market is expected to grow USD 3.48 billion, at a CAGR of 28 percent from 2018 to 2022. According to a release, the growth in the e-comme...

AI and machine learning dominate World Economic Forum's list of 2019 Technology Pioneers

The World Economic Forum today announced its list of 56 companies selected as Technology Pioneers, and this year's class demonstrates the growing embrace of artificial intelligence and machine learnin...

Combating counterfeit products to realize a better society in Russia

Illegal traffic of counterfeit products remains one of the major problems in Russia. According to the Russian Ministry of Health, about 58,000 people died of alcohol poisoning in the country in 2016, ...

5 Under-Recognized Impacts Of Air Pollution

Visible air pollution in Delhi, India. Photo by Sumita Roy Dutta/Wikimedia Commons --> Most of the rising global attention to air pollution focuses on the impacts that ozone, particulate matter, and o...

Not one single country set to achieve gender equality by 2030

No country in the world is on track to achieve gender equality by 2030, according to the first index to measure progress against a set of internationally agreed targets. Melinda Gates, co-chair of the...

Don't Stop New York's Solar Energy Leadership

Governor Cuomo's clean energy policies have accelerated the growth of clean energy across New York State. Solar energy in particular has been a major success story, spurring billions of dollars of inv...

CleanSpark Tunes Up Microgrid Design & Operation

The tricky part of microgrids is an intelligent interaction with the utility so that in the design and operation of the microgrid, factors like time of use rates, energy arbitrage, energy efficiency a...

The Next Big Phones Could Bring a Billion People Online

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- A few short years ago, the perennial corporate quest for the Next Billion Internet Users seemed like a strong pitch. Tech companies would put the sum of human knowledge in ...

"FROM THE FACTORY OF THE WORLD" --Kusatsu and Ayabe-- (Part I)

In today's increasingly diversified consumer tastes and preferences, in the manufacturing industry, it is important to deliver fine-tuned product tailored to individual tastes. It is necessary to prep...

How technology is transforming mental health treatment

Digital technologies should have much to contribute to tackling mental health conditions. Treatment can take place remotely and some patients may prefer to discuss problems through a screen rather tha...

Visibility In Manufacturing: The Path To Industry 4.0

Everyone is talking about how Industry 4.0, or the use of cyber-physical systems connected in real time across the entire value chain, is the next Industrial Revolution. Integrating data from many kin...

IXI･Innovation Platform designed to create 'innovation driven by social needs' by transcending the boundaries of business divisions

Maizuru is a city in Kyoto Prefecture with a population of about 80,000. This municipality launched a project to revitalize its community by forming a partnership with OMRON. As introduced in Part I, ...

Why A.I. Just Might Save Your Job

Walmart's announcement last month that it's deploying thousands of robot "smart assistants" ignited fresh employment fears about the effect of artificial intelligence and automation on the American wo...

Friendly Robots: The Future of Advanced Manufacturing

When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the human-like machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a...

Arresting the disaster that is climate change

Our unsustainable lifestyles and commitment to perpetual economic growth have become the major drivers of climate change and loss of biodiversity on Earth (Only rebellion will prevent an ecological ap...

The Robots are Coming Here

Robots have been a fixture of science fiction books and movies for decades. Perhaps our infatuation with them stems from some innate need to reproduce humanity in the form of a machine. Or, perhaps, i...

Automotive Industry Improves Automation, Adopts Advanced Tech

The U.S. auto industry has been automated for decades. Production of cars and trucks is associated with large, hulking robots fenced off from human employees. Inside those fenced off areas, tasks suc...

Can Indoor Farming Solve Our Agriculture Problems?

Agriculture Published on April 15th, 2019 | by Erika Clugston April 15th, 2019 by Erika Clugston --> Food is central to our lives - that's a given - but our relationship with it is problematic: agricu...

Quality Management Excellence Starts with Culture and Attitudes

Tumisu / Pixabay As Digital transformation remakes manufacturing, so too does it recreate quality management. Despite this exciting change, Aberdeen's Quality Management benchmark study findings revea...

How 5G Will Transform the Way We Live and Work

(Bloomberg) -- Self-driving cars, remote robotic surgery, autonomous weapons -- all that and much more is set to be delivered via the 5G wireless network, which promises to transform our lives and add...

Encouraging Woman Leaders!

For a variety of organizations the cultivating of next generation leaders is an extremely important task. It is, of course, preferable to give everyone equal opportunities in their active involvement ...

The US Is Responsible For 26% Of Global Warming Emissions & Is Morally Responsible To Help Solve It

Clean Power Published on March 7th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard When you can get conservatives and libertarians to admit that global warming is real, serious, and caused by humans, almost inevitably the...

Amy Webb highlights over 300 tech trends in annual report

The Future Today Institute today unveiled the latest annual Tech Trends Report, which highlights 315 trends, up from 225 last year. This is the 12th year of the Tech Trends Report. The report highligh...

Origami-inspired robot gripper grasps objects up to 120 times its weight

Robotic hands have a tough time getting a grip on pliable objects, but it's not for lack of trying -- most make do with rigid pincers that aren't designed for precision grasping. Fortunately, if a ne...

Breaking away from a manufacturing culture reliant on craftsmanship

"It was really tough to derive the right answer from something intangible." Yoshinori Inoue, an engineer at OMRON's Automation Center, who oversaw the equipment program standardization project, looks ...

AI predicts precursors to heart attacks

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) -- an umbrella term for situations where blood flow to the heart is suddenly obstructed -- can lead to a heart attack if left untreated, and that's obviously bad news. Ac...

A future that makes people happy through human-machine collaborations

The fifth generation FORPHEUS has abilities and behaviors that are much closer to those of a human. What kind of future will await us beyond this? Satoshi Yase, leader of the fifth generation FORPHEUS...

How close can a robot approach the behavior of a human?

FORPHEUS, the table tennis playing robot, has evolved every year, showcasing OMRON's flagship core technologies. The newest fifth generation FORPHEUS is packed with advanced technologies to enable add...

Can OMRON change a community!? Regional Revitalization Project toward 2030

OMRON recently concluded a comprehensive partnership agreement with Maizuru City in Kyoto Prefecture, a municipality with a population of about 80,000. The agreement was to initiate a project to revit...

With NordicNinja VC, Japan seeks a piece of European 'deep tech' startups

FEATURE: A growing amount of investment has been flowing from Asia into technology companies in North America and Europe. Chinese tech titans such as Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu have spread their wing...

Designed by A.I.: Your Next Couch, Sweater, and Set of Golf Clubs

At Callaway, the high-end golf-equipment stalwart, the process of making clubs has always been quite labor-intensive--from grinding and polishing clubheads to crafting wood-and-steel-shafted irons and...

Virtual fences, robot workers, stacked crops: farming in 2040

It is 2040 and Britain's green and pleasant countryside is populated by robots. We have vertical farms of leafy salads, fruit and vegetables, and livestock is protected by virtual fencing. Changing di...

CB Insights: Here are the top 100 AI companies in the world

Which products haven't been imbued with artificial intelligence (AI) at this point? In 2018, analysts pegged the global AI market at a whopping $7.35 billion, buoyed by the influx of machine learning-...

How self-driving cars can predict the way pedestrians move

Good drivers anticipate what others will do. Autonomous cars need to do the same. Pedestrians in Vienna, Austria. Photo by Jacek Dylag on Unsplash Self-driving cars are already on our roads, and in or...

From the Crossroads of East and West: Innovating the World's Manufacturing Industry

The Republic of Turkey is unique in that it spans two continents, Asia and Europe. In 2018, its population exceeded 80 million people. The economic growth of this nation, located at the crossroads of...

Q&A: Improving healthcare with the IoT

Healthcare IoT can assist with the collection of analytics and to improve how physicians deliver care as well. Such technologies can also boost patient engagement with the healthcare process. To under...

Ford and VW Discuss Autonomous Car Team-Up at a $4 Billion Valuation

(Bloomberg) -- Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG are progressing toward a potential agreement to join forces on self-driving cars and have overcome earlier obstacles, according to people familiar with ...

Co-creating a Smart Factory with AISIN AW

AISIN AW Co., Ltd. (AW hereafter), with its headquarters located in Aichi Prefecture, is one of the world's largest manufacturers of automobile parts. In particular, its share in the AT (automatic tr...

Food In The Anthropocene Can Be Based On Sustainable Systems -- But You Gotta Eat Your Vegetables

A recent New York Times article outlined 7 ways the US could make significant headway in reducing carbon emissions: a carbon tax, utility requirements to produce all electricity from zero-carbon sourc...

Tech companies finally care about helping older people

As I walked 32 miles through tech's biggest trade show, CES 2019, I kept thinking about products my 85-year-old mother could use. That's not an easy task, as the woman -- bless her heart -- could not...

BCtA at 10: inclusivity for all in an ambitious new call to action

A decade ago, Business Call to Action (BCtA) was launched with just 18 companies at the helm. During our inauguration, then-prime minister of the UK Gordon Brown said: "Business Call to Action is a la...

Jobs of the future: Are you ready to join in?

We are in the middle of a fourth industrial revolution. The first saw the world move from rural societies to industrial urban centres; the second introduced mass production; and the third brought the ...

Michigan leans on manufacturing history in bid to become a hub for autonomous vehicles

This week, Waymo announced that it will turn an old factory in the Detroit, Michigan area into a retrofitting facility for level four autonomous vehicles. There's plenty of unused factory space in the...

Experience Factory Harmony with OMRON Robots

A pioneer in factory automation, OMRON has developed many automation solutions for a diverse range of usage situations. These various solutions were on display at CES2019. OMRON's booth was divided i...

Microsoft CTO: Understanding AI is part of being an informed citizen in the 21st century

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott believes understanding AI in the future will help people become better citizens. "I think to be a well-informed citizen in the 21st century, you need to know a little bit abo...

Hyundai's New Car Has Legs. Literally.

We've all read the studies--or heard our doctors' diatribes--telling us to stop sitting all day, stand up, and start walking around. The movement has been going on for years. But for the first time, i...

Responsible IoT: How to keep your office safe from botnet attacks

GUEST: How many smart devices are connected to your company's network right now? I once tried to figure out the number of Internet of Things devices in my office but lost count somewhere after a hundr...

Robots Aren't Yet Killing Off All Our Jobs, World Bank Says

(Bloomberg) -- The rise of automation has so far had a negligible impact on jobs at a global scale, the World Bank chief economist said, despite common gloomy predictions that humans are set to be rep...

"FROM THE FACTORY OF THE WORLD" --Shanghai--

OMRON Industrial Automation business envisions the creation of future manufacturing sites where humans and machines work together in harmony. Our factories also focus on productivity quality innovati...

Mobileye plans to deploy fully autonomous cars in 4 years

Watch out, Waymo -- Mobileye has its sights set on you. The Tel Aviv developer of autonomous car systems, which Intel paid $15.3 billion to acquire in March 2017, had an eventful few days at CES 2019...

The best new gadgets and tech from CES 2019

All the best gadgets with none of the walking. We've been dropping updates from CES this week, but we know you just want to see the best stuff with the least amount of effort--all that content you've ...

The state of inclusive business: four things we know

Companies recognise they won't succeed in failed societies. At the same time, employees, consumers and other stakeholders are encouraging companies to also deliver societal value, and contribute to so...

SF Motors Starts Test Production At Its New EV Factory In Chongqing, China

SF Motors* has taken the wraps off of its new greenfield electric vehicle manufacturing plant in Chongqing, China, as it works towards the production launch of its SF5 and SF7 electric vehicles. The n...

Q&A: Dell Technologies 2019 predictions

We've all heard of the important 'emerging technologies': Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Internet of Things (IoT) and advances in cloud computing, and may ...

100% Renewable Energy As Catalyst For Achieving Peace & Justice

Clean Power Published on December 10th, 2018 | by The Beam December 10th, 2018 by The Beam This article was published in The Beam #7 -- Subscribe now for more on the topic. The 5th IPCC Assessment Rep...

New international standard for the Internet of Things

The new standard is ISO/IEC 30141, Internet of Things (IoT) - Reference architecture, and it sets out to provide an internationally standardized IoT Reference Architecture using a common vocabulary, r...

[The Industry's First] Placing AI on the machine controller rather than in the cloud

"Achieving zero defects while saving manpower by utilizing maximum equipment functionality."In an attempt to support an "ideal factory" for a future as envisioned by people in the field of manufactur...

Nvidia launches Jetson AGX Xavier module for autonomous machines

Nvidia launched the latest version of its Jetson Xavier chip module, which is essentially a server on a chip that handles all of the AI processing, imaging, and other computing tasks for autonomous dr...

Brainstorm Health: Health Care Predictions, Diabetes Tests, Gilead CEO

Good afternoon, readers. We have a special treat for you today--Bob Kocher and Bryan Roberts, longtime health care venture gurus at Venrock, are back to offer even more of their unique wisdom on what ...

10 tech trends and innovations for 2019

1 Automation and artificial intelligence (Al)A new level of self-training is allowing robots to draw their own conclusions and make deductions that haven't been hard-coded into them, so that when look...

Tata: 46% of organizations surveyed have adopted some form of AI

Almost half of businesses have adopted some form of artificial intelligence (AI) and 43 percent of corporate "decision makers" see it as having a significant impact on their bottom lines. That's accor...

Helping manufacturers provide quality products to customers

Today, shelves in supermarkets around the world are full of FMCG (Fast-Moving Consumer Goods). Factories of various FMCG manufacturers are striving to provide quality products accurately and quickly t...

Xprize gives an update on $5 million AI competition

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a force for good -- or so asserts Xprize, a nonprofit organization that aims to spark projects that "solve societal grand challenges." At the NeurIPS 2018 conferenc...

What is AI's Role in Your Business' Future?

--> Resistance is futile. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here, now. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the software equivalent of the semiconductor --ubiquitous, unseen, and capable of changing...

The Futuristic Manufacturing That Open Innovation Accelerates

From the manufacturing floor, to the personnel as well as to the method in which things are made across the board, there have been major transformations in factories in recent years that, day after da...

Top 5 challenges for Industrial IoT (IIoT) Implementation

blickpixel / Pixabay The physical world is transformed into being digitized. An explosion of smart devices and technologies has allowed mankind to be in constant communication with one another anytim...

DHL will invest $300 million to quadruple robots in warehouses in 2019

--> DHL Supply Chain, a logistics division of DHL, today announced it will invest $300 million to modernize 60 percent of its warehouses in North America with more IoT sensors and robots. Robotic pro...

Advanced manufacturing trends for 2019

The report comes from CB Insights and it is headed "Advanced Manufacturing Trends In 2019." The report is an analysis of emerging advanced manufacturing trends using the CB Insights NExTT framework. T...

Tech Leaders Look To IoT, AI & Robotics To Fuel Growth Through 2021

30% of tech leaders globally predict blockchain will disrupt their businesses by 2021. IoT, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics have the greatest potential to digitally transform businesses, ma...

5th Generation FORPHEUS's First Show @CES 2019

From 8th to 11th January 2019, OMRON Corporation exhibited for the second consecutive year at CES, an annual tech event of the largest scale in the world, with more than 4,500 exhibitors from across t...

How AI Is Changing the Way You Work

Getting Us All To Speak The Same Language EVER SINCE THE GOLDEN age of the original Doctor Who and Star Trek, science fiction has highlighted devices that can automatically translate languages so that...

Deloitte: 'Pervasive' AI promises to transform agriculture, health care, and manufacturing

The era of pervasive intelligence is drawing nigh, asserted Deloitte in new report published today. For proof, it continued, look no further than forecasts predicting more than half a billion smartpho...

Mix of startups and industrial giants makes Munich more than just Germany's 'other' tech hub

When Estonian entrepreneur Ardo Reinsalu began thinking about where in Europe to base his new startup, it didn't take him long to decide on Munich. After spending nine years as the head of a committe...

Hunger, health and energy: can disruptive tech help solve global challenges?

Meeting the sustainable development goals (SDGs) - a global call to action to eradicate poverty, protect the Earth and promote peace and prosperity - will not only require all hands on deck, but all t...

Robotic automation will become bigger in 2019 and beyond

Robots are increasingly being used across industry in order to make the repetitive and high-volume tasks easier. Robots don't tire and they are easier to instruct. Advances in robotic technology and i...

Bright Machines raises $179 million for factory automation with robots

Bright Machines today announced the closure of a $179 million funding round and launched out of stealth. The company aims to automate manufacturing operations in factories and make manufacturing hard...

CES 2019 will have 4,500 exhibitors, 2.75 million square feet of space, and 180,000 attendees

CES 2019 will be as big as ever when in comes around again, according to the Consumer Technology Association, the lobbying group that puts on the show in Las Vegas each January. The biggest tech trade...

Designing a station that is safe for users of all ages

Trains are indispensable for our life. They are used for commute, shopping and travel during holidays, forming an essential part of people's everyday activities. As foreign tourists visiting Japan in...

Ping Pong Playing Robots at Xi's Trade Fair: Shanghai Notebook

(Bloomberg) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the International Import Expo in Shanghai, giving a speech that was long on promises to support globalization and open the economy, but short on deta...

[Technology Infographics] Futuristic Technologies for 2033

Technologies have been advancing rapidly and automation has made our life convenient. Now, the practical application of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and IoT (Internet of Things) have attracted attent...

Gates Foundation Backs Self-Checkup App's Africa Expansion

(Bloomberg) -- A free app that lets patients do quick health checkups on themselves is the centerpiece of a Gates Foundation-backed project to bring better care to poor regions of Africa, Asia and Sou...

Achieving Diversity and Inclusion in Collaboration with the Region

The 38th Oita International Wheelchair Marathon was held on November 18th. This marathon, started as the world's first international marathon exclusively for wheelchair runners, is considered as the w...

Chrysalix Venture Capital raising $120 million fund to back Industry 4.0 startups

Chrysalix Venture Capital has closed the first part of its new Industry 4.0 fund, which will target startups focused on more energy-efficient production. The Chrysalix RoboValley Fund will be on the h...

Digital innovations for transforming healthcare

Healthcare is undergoing a digital transformation that sees a range of new technologies being introduced. These range from big data and machine learning, which are being used to examine medical scans ...

The Robot Takeover Is Coming: Machines Will Do Half Our Work by 2025

Machines and automated software will be handling fully half of all workplace tasks within seven years, a new report from the World Economic Forum forecasts. But the group said technologies such as art...

IoT is driving a home healthcare industry

The types of technologies emerging include artificial intelligence, big data, and sensor technologies. These are driving both smart hospitals and assisting with the home healthcare sector. This is acc...

Limiting warming to 1.5C is possible - if there is political will

The new 1.5C report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a sophisticated intelligence briefing on the fate of our planet. Its message is relevant to every human being on Earth. Based on...

DeepMind expands AI cancer research program to Japan

DeepMind is furthering its cancer research efforts with a newly announced partnership. Today, the London-based Google subsidiary said it has been given access to mammograms from roughly 30,000 women t...

Machines Are Coming for India's Unwanted Factory Jobs

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- A textile-yarn company in western Indian soon will have more machines than workers. A manufacturer in southern India sold almost double the number of its automated goods last ye...

Q&A: Virtual reality can aid medical learning and development

Osso VR is a virtual reality surgical simulation platform with advanced hand tracking. It is designed for surgeons and hospital staff of all skill levels. The product, according to Forbes, offers high...

AI Could Devastate the Developing World

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Most studies of the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs and the economy have focused on developed countries such as the U.S. and Britain. But through my work as a scientis...

10 Ways To Improve Cloud ERP With AI And Machine Learning

Capitalizing on new digital business models and the growth opportunities they provide are forcing companies to re-evaluate ERP's role. Made inflexible by years of customization, legacy ERP systems are...

How Nvidia is using its autonomous car platform to drive into health care

Nvidia is using the underlying architecture of its Drive autonomous vehicle platform to enable product development in other verticals with AI systems that deal with vast amounts of critical data, such...

Revolutionizing the manufacturing scene with the visualization of master craftsmanship

Today, as the population ages and fewer children are born, securing a workforce and technical capabilities is a challenge faced across the entire manufacturing industry. The transfer of experts' skill...

How industrial manufacturing gets smarter with sensors

To realize the promise of industrial IoT, however, companies must combine operational technology with enterprise IT, and collect and analyze data across the entire manufacturing ecosystem to generate ...

Google's DeepMind AI gains on human oncologists in planning radiation cancer treatments

More than half a million people are diagnosed with cancers of the head and neck each year, many of whom choose to undergo radiotherapy. But it's a delicate process: The surrounding tissue can be seve...

Humatics launches spatial intelligence platform for human-robot interactions

Humatics today announced the commercial launch of its spatial intelligence platform designed to help people and machines navigate a connected world with millimeter-scale precision. The technology use...

Top AI and Machine Learning Trends of 2018

We've come a long way since the term artificial intelligence (AI) was coined by AI luminary John McCarthy at Dartmouth in 1955. Sixty-three years later, AI is transforming healthcare, fintech, and oth...

What is Industry 4.0?

Industry 4.0, or the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is a new approach to combining traditional manufacturing processes and technology, such as the Internet of Things (IOT), and Artificial Intelligence ...

IBM's new system automatically selects the optimal AI algorithm

Not all deep learning systems -- that is to say, systems consisting of layered nodes that ingest data, transform it, output it, and pass it on -- are created equal. No algorithm is appropriate for eve...

Tackling the Food Crisis with a Borderless Collaboration

Soaring prices of vegetables has become a problem in today's world at a societal scale. Causes range from extreme weather, decline in labor force in the agricultural sector, the high prices of fuel ne...

Why Power Companies Love Drones

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- There are already 170,000 small, unmanned aerial vehicles licensed in the U.S., and the Federal Aviation Administration predicts another half-million more of them to be airborne...

Saving our oceans - Breweries have answer to plastic can holders

It's always great to hear that a company is taking its impact on the environment and sustainability seriously. Two breweries, one, Danish global brewing giant Carlsberg, and Delray Beach, Florida-bas...

Creating a company where everyone can be themselves

"What is it to be masculine or feminine?" In Japan's workplace, discriminatory expressions against LGBTs* still overflow in everyday conversation. To discuss workplace improvements to change this situ...

I want to broaden the potential of robotics for industrial solutions

From factories to parcel delivery services to the medical field, the opportunities in which robots are active in our lives have increased in recent years. With things like the debate over how much rob...

When IoT meets manufacturing

Our own era promises a different revolution: one in which miners no longer need to descend into the mine shaft, wield a pick, endure suffocating temperatures or constant jarring vibration, or risk the...

A Look Inside The Tesla Fremont Factory With Elon Musk & MKBHD

August 20th, 2018 by Kyle Field Marques Brownlee, aka MKBHD, interviewed Elon Musk at Tesla's Fremont factory on August 15th, 2018, and hinted that a factory tour video would be coming shortly. Today,...

IBM researchers propose 'factsheets' for AI transparency

We're at a pivotal moment in the path to mass adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). Google subsidiary DeepMind is leveraging AI to determine how to refer optometry patients. Haven Life is using AI...

Three Ways Digital Transformation Drives Improved Customer Experience and Service

Digital transformation continues to be a hot topic, perhaps because there's still many questions surrounding it: what it is, what it entails, the challenges and rewards, etc. It requires the right rea...

Google puts AI in charge of datacenter cooling systems

Artificial intelligence (AI) is running one of Google's data centers -- or at least the cooling system in said data center. Today in a blog post, the Mountain View, California company said that it has...

Canvass Analytics raises $5 million for industrial IoT AI, backed by Google's Gradient

Canvass Analytics today announced the closure of a $5 million funding round to explore applications of AI in industrial settings. The round was led by Gradient Ventures, an AI-focused investment fund ...

Artificial intelligence can assess personality

Putting aside the concept of 'personality' and its disputed nature within psychology, the new platform attempts to group subjects into different personality types on the basis of eye-motion. The resea...

R2 uses big data to develop AI solutions for enterprise customers

EXCLUSIVE: Artificial intelligence is the hot new thing in enterprise. A whopping 80 percent of businesses have some form of machine learning in production today, according to a study commissioned by ...

How I discovered the therapeutic power of VR -- by accident

GUEST: Ask anyone that has experienced a true, high-production virtual reality experience and nearly all can remember our "first time." The immersive nature of the technology tends to evoke such a vis...

Algorithms may outperform doctors, but they're no healthcare panacea

It perhaps shouldn't come as a surprise that Matt Hancock, the new health and social care secretary, made technology the theme of his first big speech in the new job. The former culture secretary is a...

Helping Kyoto Pave Its Future with Photovoltaic Power Generation

In recent years, the importance of renewable energy as a countermeasure against global warming as well as transition from conventional forms of energy to alternative options are increasingly attractin...

Startup at odds with doctors over claim about AI diagnoses

The UK-based healthcare startup's announcement that their AI had achieved medical test scores on par with human doctors, including on relevant sections of the MRCGP, was met with concern from doctors...

How digital technology can help secure the food chain

Data is a valuable resource across all sectors and this also stands with food production. While many technologies remain at early stages of development, the potential for newer and 'smart' devices to ...

How AI augmentation will fuel net job growth by 2020

The year 2020 will be a pivotal one in AI-related employment dynamics -- Gartner predicts 2.3 million jobs will be created and 1.8 million jobs will be eliminated. While AI-prompted employee churn is ...

Towards a factory in which anyone with a handicap can show what they are capable of with the help of mechanical ingenuity

OMRON has long been involved in the employment of personnel with disabilities. One of our initiatives has been the OMRON Taiyo. What distinguishes OMRON Kyoto Taiyo is not simply its role in social co...

VW, Ford Mull Teaming Up on Developing Commercial Vehicles

(Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen AG and Ford Motor Co. are considering a strategic alliance to work together on a range of commercial vehicles, a move that would enable two of the world's largest automakers ...

6 Effects of the Internet of Things on Project Management

Author, speaker, and futurist Jacob Morgan wrote in a Forbes article that, "The internet of things (IoT) is becoming an increasingly growing topic of conversation both in the workplace and outside of ...

Automakers must decide how much uncertainty is acceptable for autonomous vehicles

To meet the goal of autonomous vehicles that can operate safely and without any need for human input -- that is, Level5 automation -- automakers must train AI systems to navigate myriad conditions the...

The 4 principles for building AI that benefits consumers

Earlier this month, Google CEO Sundar Pichai published an excellent set of AI principles intended to guide the company's AI research. The pronouncement was prompted at least in part by Google's contro...

Why Saudi Arabia Keeps Partnering With Blockchain Startups

Saudi Arabia is getting friendly with U.S.-based blockchain-focused startups. The Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology recently partnered with ConsenSys, a Brooklyn-based produc...

Connected Technology & The Future of Your Data

Facebook's recent data scandal with Cambridge Analytica highlights just how much can be collected without your knowledge via third-party apps. The data scandal has been tied to a paid online survey fr...

Robots in the Dockyards : Shipbuilders Automate to Cut Costs

A robot invasion is underway in one of the last labor-intensive industries -- shipbuilding. In search of lower costs and speedier construction times, Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and Daewoo Shipbuildi...

Autonomous car innovations: from jam busters to cures for queasiness

Insurers at the wheel An Oxford University startup, Oxbotica, proposes to solve the problem of liability in a collision involving autonomous vehicles by allowing insurers access to the vast amounts of...

Volvo Is Giving Google Assistant a Central Role in Its Next-Generation Cars

Google is no longer creeping into the car. It's invading. Volvo Cars announced Monday ahead of the Google I/O developer conference that it will embed voice-controlled Google Assistant, Google Play Sto...

Automakers and suppliers team up to share costs of self-driving cars

Automotive suppliers and automakers are expanding alliances to develop self-driving car technology that can serve multiple automakers, as the race to put such vehicles on the road separates companies ...

From Mobile First to AI First - What This Means for You

Over the past year, Google has decided to switch gears from a mobile-first approach to an AI-first strategy. Though this change may seem odd since Google has focused primarily on mobile-first for clos...

More Than Half of Companies Aren't Prepared to Use Today's Top Technologies

In 2013, Michael Dell shocked the world by taking his namesake computer company private in the largest leveraged buyout since the Great Depression. He shocked it again in 2015 when he announced that t...

Uber and Driverless Cars Threaten Premium for Homes Near Transit

(Bloomberg) -- The premium that a condo near the train has long commanded is under threat. Ride-sharing services such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc., and the advent of electric vehicles and d...

Japanese Government Partners With Manufacturers On Solid State Battery Research

The Japanese government has created a new research entity known as the Consortium for Lithium Ion Battery Technology and Evaluation Center, or Libtec. Working in conjunction with major Japanese manufa...

IARS - OMRON's innovative-Automation Journey

During Jun. 5th-8th, 2018, China (Wuhan) International Automation & Robotics Show was held in Wuhan, China. OMRON was highly praised at the show for its perfect interpretation of industrial automa...

How mobile tech is improving healthcare for some of the world's most remote communities

Health conditions and illnesses, particularly those affecting children, often go untreated across the developing world. The top three killers of children in Africa for instance - malaria, diarrhoea an...

New center for supply chain collaboration to focus on blockchain, other new technologies

Georgia-Pacific, a provider of paper products and lumber, has announced a plan to bring together leading supply chain companies to develop solutions at its new Point A Center for Supply Chain Innovati...

This 'Intelligent Highway' Will Charge Your Car as You Drive

The road to China's autonomous-driving future is paved with solar panels, mapping sensors and electric-battery rechargers as the nation tests an "intelligent highway" that could speed the transformati...

Motor Mouths: an audiovisual guide to the UK car industry

Motor Mouths, created by the photographer and digital artist Richard Jones, offers an insight into Britain's automotive landscape. Working in partnership with the British Motor Museum and Arts Council...

Strengthening Bluetooth for Industrial IoT

The Industrial Internet of Things continues to expand. However, progress can be hampered by data transmission and connectivity. A new device, from u-blox, aims to improve Bluetooth connectivity. The n...

Spider Eyes Help Hyundai Heir Design Its Cars of the Future

(Bloomberg) -- Hyundai Motor Group's vice chairman, Chung Eui-sun, is counting on bugs and holograms to help the South Korean automaker stay relevant amid a flood of electric-vehicle startups, ride-sh...

Uber, Lyft Hope to Drive Improvements in Healthcare

Tech giants have focused their attention on healthcare as the next industry they would like to change. Companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Lyft, and Uber are often thought of as disruptors - comp...

Who's Winning the Self-Driving Car Race?

(Bloomberg) -- In the race to start the world's first driving business without human drivers, everyone is chasing Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo. The Google sibling has cleared the way to beat its nearest riva...

What the IoT Means for Remote Work

As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes more and more embedded within our lives and businesses, it's also changing the way teams across industries approach their work. In this post, we look at how the...

Machine Learning Meets Edge Computing with AWS Greengrass

In previous posts, we've looked at how edge computing can move processing, storage, and networking resources closer to the places they'll be used and away from the massive centralized data centers tha...

Ford's New Smart Window Lets Blind People 'See'

Ford has developed a prototype smart car window that lets blind people "see" the passing landscape. The "Feel the View" prototype, which was developed with Italian startup xyz, uses vibrations to give...

Nvidia Inception identifies the top 4 AI startups for autonomous systems

Nvidia created its Inception program to identify the best artificial intelligence startups -- those that will change the world and tap the computing power of Nvidia's graphics processing unit (GPU) an...

"Near-future designs" Drives Innovation

At the new business announcement on April 25, 2018, "Would we need traffic signals if we have a fully automated traffic network?" asks Masaki Suwa, the CEO / Director of OMRON SINIC X Corporation. Suc...

Blockchain, IoT, and the health data revolution (VB Live)

The potential for block technology to unlock new business use cases is huge. Join this upcoming VB Live event to learn about how the security offered by distributed ledger technologies is transforming...

Tech's Next Big Wave: Big Data Meets Biology

It Began in December, with CVS's proposed $69 billion buyout of insurer Aetna. In January, three more corporate behemoths-- Amazon , JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway --said they were forming a j...

Why Walmart Is Testing Robots In Stores--and Here's What It Learned

Inside 50 of Walmart's U.S. stores, robots resembling vacuum cleaners affixed with small, sleek towers, patrol the aisles, checking whether the shelves are stocked with enough toilet paper and that la...

Tesla Parts Spotted Piled Outside San Jose Machine Shop

A large number of parts intended for the Tesla Model 3, along with parts for the Model S and Model X, have been spotted outside a machine shop in San Jose. Such third parties are sometimes used to fix...

Joint risk management between management and staff brings fairness and transparency to a truly global company

All businesses are constantly "at risk", such as data leakage and product recalls. The source of the problem often stems from inadequate internal policies rather than human errors. So why is this happ...

Here's Your Early Look at Waymo's Next Self-Driving Car: The Jaguar I-Pace

The next self-driving vehicle in Waymo's fleet will be the new all-electric I-Pace crossover sport utility produced by Jaguar Land Rover. Waymo, the former Google self-driving project that spun out to...

It could be time to make your move into the AI job market

The results of LinkedIn's latest Emerging Jobs Report in December came as little surprise to those of us in the AI space -- machine learning engineers and data scientists are the two fastest-growing n...

How Manufacturing Could Get A Boost From Artificial Intelligence

This article first appeared in Data Sheet, Fortune's daily newsletter on the top tech news. To get it delivered daily to your in-box, sign up here. Andrew Ng, the respected computer scientist and entr...

Nvidia's Drive Constellation lets autonomous cars drive billions of miles in VR

No matter how much you test a self-driving car, it isn't enough. There are too many situations the artificial intelligence system has to train for and not enough testing time on the highways. So Nvidi...

The Future of AI is Here! Are You Making It Meaningful?

Dear future robot overlords, Please read this first. I'm on your side! I promise. Mostly. With a few exceptions. Thanks for going easy on me, -Jeannie What a great time to be alive! We live in an age ...

Nordea Says 'Huge' Growth Awaits Those Betting on Digital Farms

(Bloomberg) -- The portfolio manager running the climate stock fund at the biggest Nordic bank says now is the time to invest in digital farming. "Smart farming solutions are just at the inflection po...

The DeanBeat: The best of CES 2018 -- 'time machines', robot race cars, and ... suitcases

My trip to CES 2018, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas, is over. I walked more than 75,000 steps (35 miles) to scout for the best products and ideas that will keep the tech industry humming. I won'...

DuoBaby: Dual Relief for Parents and Babies

Have you ever had nights where your baby couldn't stop crying and didn't get enough rest? It could have been because your baby was hungry or needed comfort. Another reason is, unfortunately, one that ...

Climate scientists are working on a way to predict snow eight months in advance

The snow that builds up in mountains later determines how much water the surrounding areas will get in the spring. Public Domain Archive In Sarah Kapnick's world, Atlantic hurricanes and California sn...

Data Scientist Is The Best Job In America According Glassdoor

Data Scientist has been named the best job in America for three years running, with a median base salary of $110,000 and 4,524 job openings. DevOps Engineer is the second-best job in 2018, paying a m...

Airbus Shows Off Its New Automated Delivery Drone Service in Singapore

Airbus is enthusiastically pushing into the drone segment--the company showed off its Alpha One drone taxi earlier this month--and now it has for the first time demonstrated drone-based package delive...

Saving people around the globe from lifestyle disease

Collaborating with the Philippine government to promote local health programs "Did you know the fact that the leading cause of death in the Philippines, is heart disease?" asked Janis Ian, OMRON Healt...

Walmart plans to open a computer vision and machine learning office in Dallas on April 5

Retail giant Walmart now thinks of itself as a tech company --but it's not putting all its eggs in Silicon Valley. The company announced today that it is opening an emerging technologies office in Dal...

Safety first in manufacturing

Korea has grown into an economic giant since the 1970's from manufacturing high-quality fabrics, steel, vessels, semi-conductors, automobile, electronics, and mobile devices. OMRON Korea decided to ta...

6 jobs that could see an uptick in demand with the rise of AI

While fears abound that AI automation will lead to big staff cuts in industries around the world, technology will bring forth a plethora of new jobs and services. Similar to the onslaught of positions...

The Amazon Go effect: How bots fit into the future workforce

The illusion of job safety for the 3.5 million cashiers in America was shattered last week when Amazon Go, the first cashierless grocery store in the United States, opened in Seattle. By most accounts...

Open Innovation sheds new light on agriculture

Society changes, and a variety of needs and social issues inevitably arise around the world. This is a story of how OMRON utilizes open innovation to turn ideas into reality to fulfill necessities and...

Evolutionary algorithms are the living, breathing AI of the future

AI is no longer some abstract dream for the future. It is here, now and bringing change across industries. According to the Forrester AI Readiness Study, 40 percent of the 717 businesses surveyed said...

Protecting humanity from 'counterfeit' medicine

A young German man who suffered an acute heart attack was taken to the hospital and died two days after taking blood pressure medicine purchased on the Internet. It turns out that the medicine contain...

OMRON Healthcare shows off wearable blood pressure monitor for your wrist

Medical giant OMRON Healthcare is showing off a blood pressure monitor that you can wear as a wristwatch and that can deliver clinically validated accuracy. The Japanese company has also created a dig...

China's Evolution in Manufacturing Innovation

China used to be called "the world's factory" hosting a great number of labor intensive industries. Today, China is evolving into an innovation epicenter, creating new technologies including devices s...

10 predictions for deep learning in 2018

I've got this ominous feeling that 2018 could be the year that everything changes dramatically. The incredible breakthroughs we saw in 2017 for deep learning will carry over in a very powerful way in ...

3 Things I Learned About the Future of Technology at This Year's CES

In a dimly lit ballroom inside the MGM casino in Las Vegas earlier this month, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was discussing a strange topic in front of a very eager crowd: Different species of flowers. That...

3 ways self-driving cars will affect the insurance industry

It feels like a page out of a science-fiction book: self-driving cars shuttling people around with little or no input from passengers. And yet, here we are. Self-driving technology is already a realit...

4 deep learning breakthroughs business leaders should understand

It's a given that artificial intelligence will change many things in our world in 2018. But with new developments arising at a rapid pace, how can business leaders keep up with the latest AI to improv...

5 Unexpected Ways AI Can Save the World

Many naysayers claim that artificial intelligence could destroy the world, often using the storyline in "The Terminator" to prove their point. In reality, AI can do more to save the world. Fortunately...

AI Weekly: Machine-made art does not mean the end of human creativity

On Tuesday the creative collective Botnik Studios released an imitation Coachella poster with artists names generated by a recurrent neural network trained on thousands of band names. In past weeks Bo...

The development of AI ethics must keep pace with innovation

The ability of artificial intelligence to make ethically sound decisions is a hot topic in debates around the world. The issue is particularly prevalent in discussions on the future of autonomous cars...

What's So Great About Artificial Intelligence?

The rapid pace at which artificial intelligence (AI) is growing results in heated debates over the technology's potential threats as well as its opportunities. Some, including global leaders like Elon...

Will 2018 be a year of scientific breakthroughs - or frustrations?

Quantum computers This will be the year when we see a quantum computer solve a computational problem that conventional computers can't, using the rules of quantum mechanics to manipulate data, potenti...

U.S. Manufacturing Is Primed for Another Growth Year: Neil Dutta

(Bloomberg View) -- U.S. manufacturing production just had its best year since 2011, yet some argue that 2017 was as good as it will get and that a slowdown is ahead. We think the opposite is more lik...

OMRON Engaged Visitors with Transformative Human-Machine Integration at CES

CES 2018 As many of you know, CES is known as the largest electronics exhibition in the world, with over 4,000 exhibiting companies, 184,000 attendees which includes 7,460 media attendees from around ...

Exploring What It Means to be Human: Crossing AI and Neurology

Imagine a factory with an ideally optimized human and machine environment. What would it be like? Machines would definitely not be dominating the factory, nor would humans simply be using machines. OM...

The Force Is Real: How 'Star Wars' Neuroscience Is Revolutionizing Healthcare and More

More than 40 years after it hit theaters for the first time, the cultural influence of the "Star Wars" movie franchise is undeniable. You can see that reach in the skyrocketing box-office take of the ...

Tactai wants to bring better touch feedback to virtual reality

Virtual reality and augmented reality have delivered realistic visuals and sound to virtual experiences, but they're completely lacking a sense of touch. Tactai wants to change that with a new kind of...

3 Things to Expect at CES 2018, The Biggest Tech Show of the Year

Every January, Las Vegas' luxurious casino hotels and sprawling convention center serve as the home of CES, the tech industry's biggest confab of the year. CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electron...

4 Technology Trends That Will Transform Our World in 2018

Predicting the future requires hubris, and it should therefore be met with more than a terabyte of skepticism. In past years, I've made some calls that have proved prescient like predicting way back i...

A User's Guide to the Dawn of Robot Driving

(Bloomberg) -- The wait for the self-driving future is coming to an end. The earliest real-world applications of autonomous vehicles will arrive in 2018. Starting in Phoenix this year, a small number ...

Brain Waves Will Make Nissan's Car of the Future a Better Ride

(Bloomberg) -- The world's biggest carmakers and technology companies are spending billions of dollars to perfect your ability to drive without thinking. Nissan Motor Co. is taking a different directi...

CES 2018: Our guide to surviving tech's biggest trade show

I've lost count how many times I've been to the Consumer Electronics Show, but I'm into my third decade for the big tech trade show. This year, I'm going to walk miles of exhibits again at CES 2018, t...

How Much Does It Cost to Hire a Data Scientist?

If you have a data project-whether it's setting up a data pipeline, making sense of the data you've already collected, or something more complex-you're going to need data scientists with the right ski...

It's time for businesses to act 'intelligently artificial'

Technology loves a good bit of shorthand, the shorter the better. Which is why, as we collectively try to wrap our heads around the confusing mass that is automation, robotics, machine learning, chatb...

Resolve To Deliver More Proactive Service in 2018

Among the trends predicted for customer service in 2017, a more proactive approach to service made the list. Depending upon the products and services a company offers, the ability to deliver proactive...

3 ways AR is transforming manufacturing and logistics

Augmented reality is poised to radically improve manufacturing, logistics, and skilled trades. AR can superimpose holographic images and instructions onto the real world, which is immensely valuable f...

AI won't destroy us, and Tesla is proof

Ignore the noise about a "Terminator scenario" in which machines become self-aware and seek to destroy their flawed human masters. Those of us who live and work in the "salt mines" of machine learning...

Commentary: The Top 3 Digital Health Trends to Watch In 2018

Digital health broke out in 2017. We saw more investment than ever before: Over $4.7 billion flowed into a record number of companies. While these record-breaking investments underscore the enthusiasm...

Gartner's Top 10 Predictions For IT In 2018 And Beyond

In 2020, AI will become a positive net job motivator, creating 2.3M jobs while eliminating only 1.8M jobs. By 2020, IoT technology will be in 95% of electronics for new product designs. By 2021, 40% ...

Gary Shapiro interview: CES 2018 will have 4,000 exhibitors across 2.6 million square feet

Gary Shapiro is the showman of the greatest technology show on Earth. As the president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), he presides over CES, commonly known as the Consumer Electr...

How AI will continue its journey into the mainstream in 2018

Artificial intelligence had something of a coming out party in 2017. While some intense sensationalization of AI persisted throughout the year, progress was made to help people understand the realitie...

New Technology Should Be Neither Feared Nor Trusted: Noah Smith

(Bloomberg View) -- How should we think about new and future technologies? The two main stances seem to be extreme optimism and extreme pessimism. A better approach would be careful planning and manag...

Robots can set us free and reverse decline, says Labour's Tom Watson

Labour's Tom Watson will call on society to "embrace an android" as he argues that the rise of automation in the workplace need not cause mass unemployment and should instead be welcomed. The party's ...

The One Skill Employees Need to Survive the AI Revolution

As the artificial intelligence revolution roars on, many workers wonder whether they will lose their job to a machine. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that 400 million to 800 million of today'...

What to Look for in Personalization Technology for 2018

As we come upon a new year, marketers everywhere are considering their marketing strategies for 2018, and many are finally thinking about pursuing personalization programs. If you have put off persona...

Preventing Major Cardiovascular Illnesses with Self-monitoring

According to the WHO, more people die annually from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) than from any other cause. One of the primary cause of CVD is high blood pressure - when left untreated, the damage th...

Collaborative Robotics

Robots have drastically evolved. They are now performing medical miracles and working in places that are too dangerous for humans; carrying out complex and tedious tasks to save humans time and effort...

The evolution of electronics in society is supported by electronic components

Smartphones are an indispensable part of daily life. While the core concept of a phone is to communicate, smartphones nowadays are used for many additional jobs such as controlling lighting, controlli...

Delivering technology that helps individuals grow

In the past the main design criteria for industrial robots was to improve productivity and to work at a higher efficiency than humans. Now however, the relationship between humans and robots is not as...

Listening to the voice of the customers, OMRON production site Engineers

How to master a robot? OMRON are consulted daily about problems at production sites, for example "Can we reduce the labor involved in packing products from a conveyor belt?" Many of these customers al...

The Guardian view on productivity: the robots are coming

A country's ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output per worker. That's why Nobel laureate Paul Krugman concluded that productivit...

AI and quantum algorithms together can compute a better world

We are in a race for quantum supremacy. Google, IBM, and researchers across the globe are working on solving the most complex of computations, computations that could only be solved by the most advanc...

Why digital assistants are so hot right now

The market for AI-driven personal assistants and bots will almost double in 2018, reaching more than $12 billion by 2020 with 1.6 billion active users, according to Statista. Today, pretty much every ...

How Businesses Today Can Use Design Thinking to Drive Better Performance and Results

You may have heard of "design-based strategy" or read recently how design-led companies are seeing great success. But if you're unfamiliar with the term and aren't a creatively-minded person yourself,...

How Will AI Help Good Managers Be Great?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is more than just a buzzword. From driverless trucks traversing the country to AI winning "unwinnable" games, it's already making an impact on our home lives and will soon...

Edge Computing Takes the Cloud Back to the Future

Cloud computing has been one of the driving forces behind many of the last decade's biggest advances, allowing businesses of any size to tap into the kind of goliath computing power that was previousl...

AI will assist creative professionals, not replace them

The impact of artificial intelligence on creativity and design is top of mind for creative professionals. AI will undoubtedly accelerate the rapid pace of digital transformation and change the way we ...

A driverless future could be further away than you think

Advancements in AI technology have taken automated cars from a distant science fiction endeavor to a fast-approaching reality. Tech giants and rising rideshare companies alike are investing billions o...

The rise of predictive maintenance is upon us

In McKinsey & Company's June 2017 report, "Artificial Intelligence: The Next Digital Frontier," the institute writes about how artificial intelligence will induce a shift from preventative to pred...

Commentary: A New Electric Truck? Tesla Should Stick to Cars

Last week, Tesla unveiled a prototype of an electric, semi-autonomous truck that is set to enter production in 2019. But the company's foray into the commercial truck space is unlikely to be a game ch...

Can an employee's hobby lead to a revelation in the workplace?

A unique variation on the conventional production line, a shared hobby among development members - radio control and plastic models - The world of manufacturing is in for a potential upset due to a ne...

We want more people to experience technology that helps them grow while having fun

In the past, robots, particularly industrial robots, were required to enhance work efficiency and increase productivity by means of processing capacity that surpasses that of human operators. Today, ...

Improving on the job safety for radiologists

Medical technology was forever transformed when, in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays. Since his discovery, X-ray machines and CT scanners have become an indispensable diagnostic tool in the med...

The Never Sleeping Driver

As a society, we are soon reaching a future where the responsibility of road safety will be in the hands of AI. At OMRON Research institute, we have a designated international division working on dev...

The ethereal power system. Minimizing power transmission loss by cutting the cord

Picture yourself sitting on a hot summer day in a nice cool air-conditioned room with your chilled beer or juice just taken from your fridge. You are eating your favorite snack which has been heated i...

A "thoughtful" robot that builds a never

Yoshihisa Ijiri, who earned his doctorate in information science, specializes in image processing and machine learning at OMRON, pursuing areas like facial image processing and image sensing algorithm...

What does it take to merge AI and Manufacturing?

kira Nakajima is an information-science specialist at OMRON. He is the person who brings worldwide cutting edge information and communications technology (ICT) and artificial intelligence (AI) to OMRO...

AI can help machines and people grow together

FORPHEUS keeps evolving every year as a state-of-the-art machine that presages a future in which people and machines live and work in harmony. Why was this robot created? What kind of evolution will ...

Mission: Develop in six months a machine that will work together with people to achieve a shared goal!

FORPHEUS keeps evolving every year as a state-of-the-art machine that presages a future in which people and machines live and work in harmony. Why was this robot created? What kind of evolution will ...

A future where machines will motivate people

FORPHEUS keeps evolving every year as a state-of-the-art machine that presages a future in which people and machines live and work in harmony. Why was this robot created? What kind of evolution will ...