R&D

Keeping the Community Safe from Crime. A System that Detects Dangerous Objects in less than a Second, Without Fail. -Introducing Toshiba’s millimeter wave radar technology

Keeping the Community Safe from Crime. A System that Detects Dangerous Objects in less than a Second, Without Fail. -Introducing Toshiba’s millimeter wave radar technology

It is an all too familiar scene that plays out all too frequently of our TV screens. Once again, somewhere in the world, innocent bystanders are the victims of a violent attack. As often as not, the a…

2024/12/13
Regeneration in Action: Toshiba’s European Innovation Hub Leading the Way

Regeneration in Action: Toshiba’s European Innovation Hub Leading the Way

Toshiba’s rich 150 year history in technological development has been characterized by constantly tailoring its innovation and solutions to address wider societal issues. In September 2023, Toshiba to…

2024/05/17
Toshiba’s Young Engineers -Creating a Society where Everyone can Develop High-quality AI

Toshiba’s Young Engineers -Creating a Society where Everyone can Develop High-quality AI

Technology advances have carried AI beyond the familiar areas of voice recognition and synthesis and image recognition into many new areas. Industry is applying it to boosting factory productivity, an…

2023/12/15
A Blue Ocean Strategy Protects Infrastructure -Securing the world’s bridges with the power of digital technology

A Blue Ocean Strategy Protects Infrastructure -Securing the world’s bridges with the power of digital technology

In October 2021, the Biden administration signed a $1 trillion infrastructure investment bill that put a strong emphasis on rebuilding roads and bridges. Aging infrastructure is something Japan also h…

2023/12/06
The impact of an AI that rejects everything but acceptable products -Will it be the savior of digital transformation in manufacturing?

The impact of an AI that rejects everything but acceptable products -Will it be the savior of digital transformation in manufacturing?

Faced with an unpredictable future, one of most-needed abilities in today’s age of VUCA—volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity—is the capacity for self-transformation. Manufacturers working…

2023/10/16
A Player in the Shadows that Maintains Local Power Grids – An Evaluation Technology that Advances Microgrids

A Player in the Shadows that Maintains Local Power Grids – An Evaluation Technology that Advances Microgrids

If we are going to achieve carbon neutrality, countries around the world need to adopt solar power and other renewable energy sources as a matter of urgency. Central to this is the microgrid, a small-…

2023/10/09
Creative Thinking Realizes a New Normal and the World’s Most Accurate AI, Part2 -Reducing AI training data while improving performance

Creative Thinking Realizes a New Normal and the World’s Most Accurate AI, Part2 -Reducing AI training data while improving performance

AI-based image recognition is already part of our lives. What is not often realized is that to get it to work with a high degree of accuracy requires extensive training with large volumes of data. Thi…

2023/08/23
Creative Thinking Realizes a New Normal and the World’s Most Accurate AI, Part 1 -AI Image Recognition No Longer Needs Huge Volumes of Training Data

Creative Thinking Realizes a New Normal and the World’s Most Accurate AI, Part 1 -AI Image Recognition No Longer Needs Huge Volumes of Training Data

The market for AI is expanding rapidly in Japan. Some predict that by 2025, it will swell to 1.9 trillion yen, about double the FY 2020 level, as AI is increasingly used to solve social issues. In Mar…

2023/08/09
How Toshiba Is Promoting the Widespread Adoption of Renewable Energy – Predicting Power Generation Volumes and Developing Power Trading Strategies with AI

How Toshiba Is Promoting the Widespread Adoption of Renewable Energy – Predicting Power Generation Volumes and Developing Power Trading Strategies with AI

If we are going to counter climate change, its droughts, heat waves and torrential rain, we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero, and fast. Over 150 countries have target years for realizing c…

2023/06/22
Getting the Best from Reliable Hardware with Software Defined, Part 2 -Utilization of Open Source Software Within and Outside the Company Increases Overall Strength

Getting the Best from Reliable Hardware with Software Defined, Part 2 -Utilization of Open Source Software Within and Outside the Company Increases Overall Strength

We are surrounded by products that offer additional or updated functions defined by software. One is the Apple Watch, hardware that uses sensors and an electrocardiogram app—software—to detect atrial …

2023/05/24