Toshiba Aims to Shape Happier Living Through New Campaign in Asia Pacific
In January 2018, Toshiba launched a new campaign, Shaping a Happier Living, in the Asia Pacific region to introduce Toshiba’s leading-edge solutions that are enhancing the way individuals and society are using energy, water, and technology, as well as the way they travel and work. Through this campaign, Toshiba aims to increase awareness of its solutions […]
Ozonation in drinking water treatment
Food and water are our most fundamental needs, and as the global population grows from 7 to 8-billion, and more and more people flock to cities, ensuring a reliable supply of good and safe quality water has never been a more pressing issue. The conventional drinking water treatment, developed in the U.S. in the 1920s, […]
Giving CO2 an Economic Value: Carbon Capture Technology Helps Recycle Waste into Resources
Today, large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions pose a further threat to the environment, especially at a time where global warming has become a serious problem. Toshiba, a world leader in developing carbon capture technologies, which separate CO2 emitted by thermal power plants and other facilities, is contributing to alleviate this threat. Saga City, […]
Arm in Arm: Toshiba’s New Robot and Coexistence with People
We increasingly take robots for granted. Robots on production lines are an old story, and for shoppers in Japan their synthesized greetings are no longer a novelty. Robots are here, all around us, and definitely here to stay. In fact, in many ways, they’ve only just arrived. Go back to the robot receptionist. That’s something […]
AI Tackles Video Analytics of Rugby Games
When Toshiba’s rugby team, the Brave Lupus aren’t busy taking on other teams, they are tackling a new project—one that involves high-level ICT technology. The goal is to combine audio-visual recognition technologies with deep learning to create tools for planning strategies and bolstering player skills. The project’s foundation lies in Toshiba’s top-class, audio-visual cloud computing […]
“The Face of the Airport” – Passenger Information Boards
How ANA and Toshiba’s collaboration made Haneda an even better airport Better visibility of the boards thanks to applied ergonomics Usefulness for both the passengers and airport staff How good teamwork enabled two companies to work together Over 74 million passengers visit Tokyo Haneda Airport every year. The airport’s international terminal was the first airport […]
Five Things Everybody Should Know About Hydrogen Energy
While thermal and nuclear power remain our main sources of baseload energy supply, there is increasing interest in renewables—most of us are familiar with the potential of hydro, and solar and wind power. However, there is another energy source that we need to add to that list, one that is attracting increasing attention as perhaps […]
Driving a See-through Car?
Driving a see-through car? If you have ever driven, you will almost certainly have been gripped at one time or another by a sudden feeling of apprehension as another vehicle—a car, a motorcycle or even a bicycle—suddenly looms up alongside yours. You ask yourself, “How come I didn’t see it in the side mirror?” Mirrors […]
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 […]
