Generating Power from a Waterfall Only as Tall as a Man: Micro Hydro Broadens the Appeal of Hydropower
Mounting concerns about environment degradation are accelerating adoption of many and various renewable energy systems around the world, with solar, wind, and biomass power among the more familiar. However, the largest single source of emission-free, renewable electricity worldwide is hydroelectric power, which harnesses the power of moving water to generate electricity. The key advantages of […]
Bringing the New AI Era to Life – The Researchers Creating Toshiba’s Technologies
Our previous three articles introduced how Toshiba applies AI at Yokkaichi Operations, in an image recognition LSI, and in communications. These technologies all originated at Toshiba’s Corporate Research and Development Center. Osamu Hori, the Director of the Center, has been closely involved with image recognition research throughout much of his career, which is interwoven with […]
Toshiba’s Communication AI: Evolving AI-related Technologies Long Cultivated by Toshiba
AI Supports Human Communication Like Human Does In an age where technology advances at an ever faster pace, we now generate vast amounts of data each and every day. To store it, we have driven forward progress in storage to realize exabyte-level data centers—that’s an 8 followed by 18 zeros—and to mine and use this […]
Toshiba Artificial Photosynthesis
Converting CO2 into Ethylene Glycol Among Mother Nature’s many wonders, Toshiba researchers focused on photosynthesis — a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms’ activities (energy transformation). In other words, plants are able to synthesize food directly from carbon dioxide […]
AI Contributes to Cutting Car Accidents: Toshiba’s Image Recognition LSI
Figures from WHO* show that almost 1.25 million people die in car accidents every year. As more cars come onto the world’s roads, it’s a figure that’s likely to grow. But automobile manufacturers are responding, by building increasingly advanced capabilities into their vehicles. This includes collision avoidance technology that automatically stops cars to avoid accidents. […]
Toshiba to the World ~AI’s Social Optimization~
Toshiba, the traditional AI CompanyArtificial intelligence, AI, is an often heard buzzword in the world of IT, and it gets a lot of media coverage for things like “singing-chatting robots” and the interactive personal assistants on our smartphones. But what exactly is AI? Definitions usually center on making computers or systems do things that humans […]
The Rechargeable Battery, SCiBTM by Toshiba
From automotive to public transportation to future utility-scale energy storage SCiB TM by Toshiba has got you covered electric buses Toshiba has been researching and producing battery technology for decades and in 2011 Toshiba engineers developed the SCiB TM – a rechargeable super-charge ion battery which has revolutionized battery energy storage. Toshiba’s SCiBTM is a safe, high-performance, long-life, […]
Over 50 years with AI – Toshiba’s future eyes
More than a manufacturer, an AI pioneerThe 1960s saw the first manned space flight was launched. In the same decade, Toshiba invented the world’s first letter sorting machine in 1967. With the ability to read handwritten postal codes and to sort six letters a second, the machine dramatically speeded up letter sorting, until then done […]
Can Robotic Solutions Improve Logistics?
Robotics and automation technologies are quite common throughout the factory and manufacturing sectors, especially with industries in the service sector facing a critical labor shortage accompanying the aging of society and declining birthrate in recent years. Against this backdrop, Toshiba recognizes the potential market in distribution warehouses, and in sorting centers for intelligent robotics and […]
Toshiba Group Once Again Celebrates CSR Month
Toshiba Group employees encouraged to participate in CSR activities in December Activities held all over the world Contributing to the achievement of a sustainable society guided by Toshiba’s corporate motto – Committed to People, Committed to the Future – For over a decade now, December has been Toshiba Group CSR Month, a tradition and commitment […]
