Tag Archives : University of Tokyo

Although today is the Seagate or WD who owns the largest share of the market, Hitachi is preparing for a big leap in terms of storage, much higher than exists today: hard drives up to 24 TB. Hitachi along with researchers from the Industrial Technology Development Organization and New Energy in Japan (NEDO) and the University of Tokyo, is developing [...]

The newest Japanese humanoid robot was made by Kokoro and is being used in hospitals, testing the reaction and interaction of the patients. The Actroid-F is eerily similar to a human being, in this case with a Japanese woman in her 20s. It has sat 1.40 m and weighs about 30 kg. The Kokoro, in partnership with researchers from the University of Tokyo [...]

At the University of Tokyo, Prof. Masatoshi Ishikawa, who is quite well known in the field of robotics has now designed and developed an all new design that would in future, make the process of document scanning a matter of seconds, instead of hours. Scanning huge volumes of pages is an arduous and a frustrating task, but with Ishikawa’s innovation, [...]

Alvaro Cassinelli, Cerebra Yusaku and Stephane Perrin of the Department of Information Physics and Computing at the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory of the University of Tokyo have certainly made a breakthrough discovery through their project- the Sticky Lamp, which redefines the whole concept of laser technology. Taking the laser scanner to a new dimension, [...]

How many times do we wish for something that would take care of all little things like glasses or slippers we have a tendency to lose or misplace so often in our life? The Information and Robot Technology Research Initiative will grant your wish! The research body from University of Tokyo in collaboration with Japanese companies Toyota and Fujitsu has [...]