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Fully autonomous in-home cleaning robot

Fully autonomous in-home cleaning robot

Preferred Networks Inc., a Japanese venture based in Tokyo, unveils a fully autonomous in-home cleaning robot at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies, or CEATEC, at Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 16, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Fully autonomous in-home cleaning robot

Fully autonomous in-home cleaning robot

Preferred Networks Inc., a Japanese venture based in Tokyo, unveiles a fully autonomous in-home cleaning robot at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies, or CEATEC, at Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 16, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Foxter's Hybrid Image Processing System for AI Visual Inspection

Foxter's Hybrid Image Processing System for AI Visual Inspection

Foxter Corporation (Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture) will release in May a hybrid image processing system that combines Preferred Networks' (PFN, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo) artificial intelligence (AI) visual inspection and conventional image processing methods.The company will market the system in Japan and China in cooperation with a subsidiary of the OPTEX Group, which is engaged in the manufacture of lighting for image processing, in terms of sales and service. The sales target is 200 units a year. Auto parts manufacturers and others have already begun to introduce the system on a trial basis. The device in the center of the photo is the AI Stellar Controller. (Photo taken on March 16, 2020, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)
Kao and PFN collaborate on sebum RNA analysis

Kao and PFN collaborate on sebum RNA analysis

On the 20th, Kao announced that it will collaborate with Preferred Networks (PFN, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) on the practical application of sebum RNA monitoring technology, which extracts and analyzes ribonucleic acid (RNA) from sebum. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning and deep learning will be applied to the data obtained from sebum RNA. PFN's AI technology will be incorporated into this technology. Mr. Michitaka Sawada, President of Kao Corporation, said, "Accumulation of data makes prediction possible. "We can expect to use preventive cosmetics to improve the skin in a few years," he said. This technology is also expected to be used in the medical industry. The company is also conducting research with a view to using the technology in the early diagnosis of intractable diseases such as Parkinson's disease. Photo taken on November 19, 2019, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images