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By leveraging distributed manufacturing knowledge, the system quantitatively generates multiple production line configuration options tailored to on-site requirements, enabling improved operational efficiency and faster decision-making. Hitachi and the HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and C...

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...

Motors are believed to account for approximately half of all global electricity consumption. Accordingly, improving motor efficiency can make a significant contribution to achieving carbon neutrality.Hitachi’s Research & Development Group has been working to develop high-efficiency motors using a...

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 ...

CAR-T cell therapy is an innovative cancer treatment that enhances the cancer-attacking ability of T-cells, the key cells to the patient’s own immune system. This therapy works by introducing Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) genes into T cells—immune cells that recognize and attack various foreign...

The semiconductor industry has been growing by adopting the concept of horizontal division of labor, which separates the manufacturing process into the front-end stage for manufacturing wafers and the back-end stage for dicing a wafer and mounting dies onto individual packages. However, a new tre...

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...

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...

CAR-T cell therapy is an innovative cancer treatment that enhances the cancer-attacking ability of T-cells, the key cells to the patient’s own immune system. This therapy works by introducing Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) genes into T cells—immune cells that recognize and attack various foreign...

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...

As environmental impacts such as resource depletion and increasing waste have become global challenges, the Hitachi–AIST Circular Economy Collaborative Research Laboratory (Hitachi–AIST CE Lab) held its third open forum. The laboratory was established in 2022 by Hitachi, Ltd. and the National Ins...

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...