R&D

Superconducting Motors are on the Flight Path to Carbon Neutral Planes, Part1 – Breaking Down Barriers No One has Overcome, for the Future of Aircraft

Superconducting Motors are on the Flight Path to Carbon Neutral Planes, Part1 – Breaking Down Barriers No One has Overcome, for the Future of Aircraft

In October 2022, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the UN specialized agency that coordinates and develops international air navigation and travel, set new targets for reducing CO₂ emissi…

2023/04/07
How Do You Ensure the Quality of AI Systems?, Part 2 -Our mission to improve AI literacy

How Do You Ensure the Quality of AI Systems?, Part 2 -Our mission to improve AI literacy

The phrase “garbage in, garbage out,” GIGO, is a useful reminder that AI systems trained on low quality data will pick up unwanted features, resulting in poorly realized AI models.   In Part 1, we loo…

2023/03/23
How Do You Ensure the Quality of AI Systems?, Part 1　- Prepping Data, Ethics and the Law—Identifying the Key Concerns

How Do You Ensure the Quality of AI Systems?, Part 1　- Prepping Data, Ethics and the Law—Identifying the Key Concerns

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a part of our collective vocabulary for a while now, and its technological advances are irreversible. We need to think deeply about these advances, on the assumpt…

2023/03/16
Maximizing the Lifetime and Usefulness of Lithium-ion Batteries – AI Monitoring Technologies that Support Batteries Extended Service Life

Maximizing the Lifetime and Usefulness of Lithium-ion Batteries – AI Monitoring Technologies that Support Batteries Extended Service Life

The Glasgow Climate Accord was adopted at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Glasgow in the UK. The accord incorpo…

2023/01/13
AI Coordinators Hold the Key to Introducing AI, Part 2 -What Future Do AI Coordinators Envisage?

AI Coordinators Hold the Key to Introducing AI, Part 2 -What Future Do AI Coordinators Envisage?

A circular economy emphasizes the repair, refurbishment, reuse and recycling of materials and products to the fullest extent possible, to promote sustainability. To promote this, the Ellen MacArthur F…

2022/11/22
AI Coordinators Hold the Key to Introducing AI, Part 1 -Introducing a Group of AI Specialists that Matches Needs with Seeds

AI Coordinators Hold the Key to Introducing AI, Part 1 -Introducing a Group of AI Specialists that Matches Needs with Seeds

In 2016, an important event occurred in the history of AI. AlphaGo, an AI software program that plays the board game Go, trounced the world champion in a landslide victory. This news of AI’s progress …

2022/11/16
Harnessing the Full Power of the Sun, Part 2 -Toshiba’s breakthrough toward realizing Electric Vehicles (EVs) that run without plug-in charging

Harnessing the Full Power of the Sun, Part 2 -Toshiba’s breakthrough toward realizing Electric Vehicles (EVs) that run without plug-in charging

As emphasized in Part 1, greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced to zero in order to curb the adverse effects of climate change. About a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions come from generating elect…

2022/09/21
Harnessing the Full Power of the Sun, Part 1 -What exactly is “transparent Cu₂O,” the material poised to dominate the next-generation solar cell market?

Harnessing the Full Power of the Sun, Part 1 -What exactly is “transparent Cu₂O,” the material poised to dominate the next-generation solar cell market?

In order to curb the negative effects of climate change—we must develop new technologies that enable the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to zero. A powerful method for achieving this goal is shi…

2022/09/14
From grams to tons, the world’s most effective CO₂ recycling technology: Reflects lessons learned from failure

From grams to tons, the world’s most effective CO₂ recycling technology: Reflects lessons learned from failure

Atmospheric CO₂ levels are the highest in 2-million years. As greenhouse gases accumulate, climate change is triggering rising sea levels, heat waves and torrential rain. In response, countries worldw…

2022/08/08
The Climate Crisis Reaches a Watershed: Initiating moves to make CO₂ a resource

The Climate Crisis Reaches a Watershed: Initiating moves to make CO₂ a resource

Heavy rain, heat waves, drought—the August 2021 report from Working Group 1 of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found that, “Human-induced climate change is already…

2022/08/01