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Supports stronger vulnerability response capabilities through decision criteria explainable to third parties and automated operations Hitachi has developed a method for automatically determining vulnerability response prioritization based on business impact, enabling organizations to prioritize r...

Machine learning analyzes flow cytometry test data and presents multiple candidate diseases with probabilistic output Hitachi, Ltd. and the National University Corporation Kyushu University Hospital (hereinafter “Kyushu University Hospital”) have developed a machine learning-based AI technology t...

Achieves false-positive suppression and false-negative reduction in manufacturing sites, social infrastructure, and more Hitachi has developed an AI technology that post-processes and corrects the detection results of existing object detection AI to enhance safety and operational efficiency acros...

Analyzing AI’s impacts across environmental, social, and economic systems, and proposing a global governance framework for sustainability transitions Hitachi has announced the publication of a joint research report, “Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability Transitions: Emergent Opportunities, ...

Lifestyle diseases, isolation, and loneliness cannot be adequately addressed by medical treatment alone. Japanese society faces a host of challenges as the population declines, but only limited resources are available for solving them. Hitachi’s Research & Development Group has been exploring a n...

In space situational awareness (SSA), the use of radio waves to estimate of the position and velocity of objects is a key method alongside observations using optical cameras. In 2024, Hitachi’s Research & Development Group developed a foundational technology that allows the measurement of radio w...

Natural disasters like earthquakes and floods can severely impact supply chain continuity, even when parts are sourced from multiple companies, if the factories are concentrated in the same region. However, data that links parts to their manufacturing sites is often scarce. To address this issue ...

Hitachi, Ltd. is participating as a partner in the Future City pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, where it is jointly exhibiting with KDDI under the theme of “Society 5.0 and Future City,” which envisions the future society in the year 2035. What does Hitachi seek to achieve by exhibitin...

In “Biomanufacturing,” biotechnologies, such as those using enzymes and microorganisms, are applied to traditional manufacturing processes of the chemical industry. It is expected to help produce pharmaceuticals, regenerative medicine products, and low-environmental-impact materials and fuels. In...

As IoT environments grow more complex, security operations are reaching a point where labor-intensive, manual approaches are no longer sufficient. Hitachi’s “AI for Security” is a portfolio of AI technologies that covers the entire lifecycle, from product planning and design to operations, reduci...

“Cooling” is often considered as straightforward to implement as it is commonly associated with, for instance, air conditioners and refrigerators. However, when it is considered in relation to the two social challenges of refrigerant regulations and energy savings toward a decarbonized society, c...

A zero-knowledge proof is a technology to prove the truth of your knowledge or a statement without providing any further information. As it can guarantee that there is no fraud, even Hitachi – accelerating R&D efforts on blockchains by applying its expertise in security and distributed data proce...

Masaya Tsunokake Research & Development Group Hitachi, Ltd. Introduction Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being adopted in real-world enterprise operations. Many real-world applications require LLMs to work with proprietary knowledge in highly specialized and narrow fields — so-calle...

Tomoya Nishida Research & Development Group Hitachi, Ltd. Why physical AI needs to understand sound Physical AI is becoming increasingly important as AI moves beyond digital data to sense, understand, and support decisions in the real world. In critical sectors like manufacturing, energy, and mob...

Natsuo Yamashita Research & Development Group Hitachi, Ltd. Introduction Industrial environments such as inspection floors, maintenance sites, and manufacturing plants are increasingly seeking to adopt speech AI to improve efficiency. However, practical deployment in these settings remains far mo...

Remish Leonard Minz R&D Centre Hitachi India Pvt. Ltd. Introduction When an engineer needs to diagnose a fault or validate a design, the difference between minutes and hours depends upon how quickly a legacy circuit schematic can be interpreted and trusted. At Hitachi, digital transformation is a...

Hitachi Research and Development (R&D) Group is working to apply AI across a wide range of domains. Underpinning these efforts is a shared stance that the ultimate decision-making responsibility lies with humans. Rather than allowing AI ethics to become a constraint on technological innovation, t...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to attract significant interest across society, driven by the rapid rise of generative AI. From personal use to business applications, AI is no longer just a partner for brainstorming—it is increasingly taking on diverse roles such as generating p...

Introduction This roundtable explores how the explosive expansion of AI — and the associated growth in data centers needed to power them — is creating new and complex demands on the electricity grid, exposing limitations in traditional planning approaches. Moderated by Bo Yang, Vice President of ...

The emergence of generative AI is taking system development to new levels of automation and efficiency. While attention has focused on the application of generative AI to coding and testing processes in system development, its impact can be expected to go beyond efficiency-raising or solving huma...

Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. It was a global event built around the theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives.” As a Platinum Partner of the Future Life Expo: Future City, Hitachi worked with KDDI to put together an exhibition called Mirai Meeting, organized around the theme “Society 5.0 a...

How will the direction of society be decided in 2035, once Society 5.0 has been realized? At the Future City Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, Hitachi and KDDI staged a joint exhibit called Mirai Meeting, an interactive experience based on the concept “We can change the future,” which a...

Kyōsō-no-Mori is the Hitachi Research & Development Group’s R&D hub in Kokubunji City, Tokyo. Since the establishment of a Hitachi’s research laboratory here in 1942, this center of innovation has protected and nurtured the area’s vast natural surroundings—an environment that hints at what the Mu...

AI and digitalization are profoundly reshaping the way we work and the structure of entire industries. Alongside these shifts, global trends—such as rising geopolitical risks, intensifying technological competition, and targeted investments—are pushing the industrial world to a turning point neve...

As risks affecting social and economic activities become increasingly diverse and complex, the University of Tokyo established the Institute for Digital Observatory in April 2023 with the aim of strengthening the resilience of national and corporate activities through the early detection of risk ...

Natural disasters like earthquakes and floods can severely impact supply chain continuity, even when parts are sourced from multiple companies, if the factories are concentrated in the same region. However, data that links parts to their manufacturing sites is often scarce. To address this issue ...

In Hitachi, the Digital Observatory Research Initiative is advancing research and development of a system capable of predicting supply chain risks in advance through collaborations with academic institutions and companies. As part of this effort, Hitachi leverages the API provided by ClimateAi, I...

Developing Hydrogen Production Technology to Achieve Low-Cost Production Through the Utilization of Surplus Renewable Energy and Grid Stabilization for Stable and Large-Scale Supply of Green Hydrogen To achieve a carbon-neutral society, it is anticipated that a large amount of hydrogen will be ne...

As risks affecting social and economic activities become increasingly diverse and complex, the University of Tokyo established the Institute for Digital Observatory in April 2023 with the aim of strengthening the resilience of national and corporate activities through the early detection of risk ...

Hitachi India (HIL) Research & Development Centre partnered with Manipal Institute of Technology Bengaluru, part of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India (MIT Bengaluru), to organize VISISONICS AI’26 Hackathon as part of its broader strategy to strengthen academia-industry collaboration....

The Cybersecurity Research Group of Hitachi India (HIL) R&D participated in the Global OT Cybersecurity in Energy Sector (GOTS) 2026 held in New Delhi, where they introduced their fuzzing solution for OT products and conducted a live demonstration of security testing using a Hitachi product. At t...

At CES earlier this year, we shared our vision for Physical AI, the message was not about distant futures. It was about practical problem-solving—how AI can be trusted, deployed, and scaled in the real world, where infrastructure, factories, and people operate under physical and operational const...