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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, ...

Contributing to sustainable future urban mobility through technologies for safe and efficient management of multiple autonomous vehicles Hitachi has developed an operation control system for autonomous vehicles by integrating physical AI for mobility with a data collection and management platform...

Aiming to present quantitative indicators that complement morphological observation in rapid on-site evaluation through elemental analysis and nuclear area measurement Hitachi, Hitachi High-Tech, and the National Cancer Center Hospital have developed a quantitative cellular analysis technology*1 ...

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...

Hitachi, Ltd. has contributed to the acceptance and widespread use of open source software (OSS), through its work starting from the founding of The Linux Foundation in 2000, on improving the reliability of the Linux kernel and on developing functions enabling use in social infrastructure. Aimed ...

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...

The control and operational technologies used to run systems and equipment in manufacturing and other on-site settings are called Operational Technology (OT). Through OT, a diverse range of knowledge, data, and know-how is generated daily on the front lines, making it necessary to transform this ...

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...

Kota Dohi Research & Development Group Hitachi, Ltd. Empowering non-experts to unlock time-series insights Time series data are sequences of sensor measurements recorded over time (e.g., temperatures, pressures, vibrations) whose evolving shapes encode machine states and anomalies. Understanding ...

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...

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...

"Make a Difference!" is Hitachi Group's internal business plan contest. It aims to transform ideas from employees into viable businesses and drive innovation. Team Uwezo, comprising three members from Hitachi's Research & Development Group, won the Gold Ticket (top prize) in fiscal 2023 and is no...

Team Uwezo from the Research & Development Group won the top Gold Ticket prize in the 2023 “Make a Difference!” contest, an internal business plan contest for Hitachi Group employees in Japan and abroad. They're advancing a project to commercialize a solution for reducing lifestyle-related diseas...

Voice Messages for the Future Global crises—from environmental collapse and armed conflict to energy shocks and economic instability—are obstructing the urgent societal transformations needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. In the midst of this crisis, how can we chart a path forwar...

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...

Developing integrated power and hydrogen supply-demand control technologies to build a hydrogen value chain that achieves both cost efficiency and stable supply. As renewable energy becomes more widespread and hydrogen gains traction in society, the efficient operation of energy grids is expected...

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...

Hitachi America newly opened Industrial Innovation Lab in Novi, Michigan.<br>The lab is designed to bridge the gap between advanced technologies and real-world operations by co-creating human-centered solutions with customers and frontline workers.Furthermore, combined with the Midwest’s strength...

A major challenge facing Japan and other advanced economies is the growing shortage of frontline workers driven by a declining labor force and the difficulty of passing on expert skills from experienced professionals to the next generation. To address these challenges, Hitachi has developed the A...