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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, ...

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...

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...

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...

Tech Talk with mediaX at Stanford University and the MIT Media Lab

We are publishing a series of articles on CES 2019 to share the exciting events that took place at OMRON's booth this year. Today's topic is the Tech Talk with guest speakers from mediaX at Stanford ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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 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...

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...

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...

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...

[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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Deron Jackson, Chief Technical Officer, OMRON Adept Technologies

Deron Jackson is the Chief Technical Officer of OMRON Adept Technologies, located in San Ramon near California's Silicon Valley. He holds a doctorate from MIT, and is a co-inventor of six U.S. patents...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...