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Worried About Your Future Health? Toshiba’s AI Technologies Can Predict Your Risk of Developing a Lifestyle Disease (Part 2)

Worried About Your Future Health? Toshiba’s AI Technologies Can Predict Your Risk of Developing a Lifestyle Disease (Part 2)

Have you ever wondered, If I keep living the way I am, what diseases am I at risk of developing and when? and What can I do now to prevent developing a disease in the future? Toshiba is working to add…

2020/11/11
Worried About Your Future Health? Toshiba’s AI Technologies Can Predict Your Risk of Developing a Lifestyle Disease (Part 1)

Worried About Your Future Health? Toshiba’s AI Technologies Can Predict Your Risk of Developing a Lifestyle Disease (Part 1)

Are you guilty of not getting enough exercise? Perhaps eating or drinking too much? Every time we go for a medical check-up, most of us probably think, Im going to get rid of all these bad habits and …

2020/10/28
Robots that could Sense, Think and Act

Robots that could Sense, Think and Act

Hisashige Tanaka, one of Toshibas founders, was famously known as karakuri giemon, the genius of mechanical things. His automata, the forerunners of robots, performed complex movementslike the renowne…

2020/07/22
We Are Toshiba: By Looking for a Better Way, We Are Building the Future of AI Technology

We Are Toshiba: By Looking for a Better Way, We Are Building the Future of AI Technology

The Essence of Toshiba is the cornerstone of our work, on the other hand, it is also the reflection of the efforts of over 12 thousand employees from all over the world.Although there are various jobs…

2020/03/11
An Algorithm Originated from Quantum Computer Research: A New Hero in Combinatorial Optimization

An Algorithm Originated from Quantum Computer Research: A New Hero in Combinatorial Optimization

The construction of logistics networks, the relieving of traffic congestion, the discovery of new drugs What if we told you that these and other social solutions across a variety of fields, could be r…

2020/02/12
An Aging Population, an Aging Infrastructure: How Structural Health Monitoring Combats Both of These Social Issues

An Aging Population, an Aging Infrastructure: How Structural Health Monitoring Combats Both of These Social Issues

Some may know of what is referred to as the economic miracle in Japan, wherein Japan experienced a period of rapid economic growth after World War II. As miraculous as this period was, it seems no won…

2020/01/15
Spot Welding Inspection Robots Spark a Revolution in the Automotive Industry

Spot Welding Inspection Robots Spark a Revolution in the Automotive Industry

A single automobile consists of 30,000 or more individual parts. Every vehicle also has 4,000 5,000 places where the parts, such as metal plates, are spot welded together. Spot welding is a welding m…

2019/12/25
Instant Voice-to-Text! Transforming Work Styles with the Power of AI

Instant Voice-to-Text! Transforming Work Styles with the Power of AI

We are fast approaching a time where more people can live beyond a hundred years old. At the same time, however, there are labor shortages due to low birthrates and an aging population. RPA (Robotics …

2019/12/11
Creating Together Opens a New Future of Self-Driving Cars

Creating Together Opens a New Future of Self-Driving Cars

Here at Toshiba, we offer two in-house awards named after our founding fathers, Hisashige Tanaka and Ichisuke Fujioka. Tanaka, born in 1799, was nicknamed Karakuri Giemon, the genius of mechanical won…

2019/11/27
An Entire Factory in Cyberspace? : Creating Optimal Worksites through Simulation

An Entire Factory in Cyberspace? : Creating Optimal Worksites through Simulation

Hisashige Tanaka and Ichisuke Fujiokathe founding fathers of Toshiba, were two people who made an enormous impact on the history of modern technology in Japan. Here at Toshiba, we offer two in-house a…

2019/11/20