Organization/Research Institute
Service Innovation Laboratory Group
Service Innovation Laboratory Group aims to discover the endless possibilities and the ideal state of humanity that can be created by combining future society and digital information, then make these a reality. Service Innovation Laboratory Group researches and develops technologies that digitize the people and objects that make up society, and enable large-scale, high-accuracy, high-speed predictions of future society and feedback to the real world that digitization makes possible. This enables digitization including the inner aspects of humans, societal interaction that transcends space-time and reality, and realizes unprecedented individual and group activities. This will also show the world what forms humanity must assume in terms of security, privacy, and the global environment.
Senior Vice President Tomoyuki Kanekiyo
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Human Informatics Laboratories
Human Informatics Laboratories promote research and development aimed at deeply understanding humans and expanding their potential.
With core technologies including AI that supports human judgment and behavior, world models that understand and predict changes in the real world, robotics that extends or replaces human physical capabilities, and AI agents that collaborate with people to solve problems, we aim to realize new services and social systems that are attuned to each individual's thoughts and values.
We are conducting research to realize a society where people and society are connected in richer ways, and where diverse individuals can create new value while fully utilizing their abilities.Vice President Masahiro Endo
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Social Informatics Laboratories
Social Informatics Laboratories is engaged in research and development of technologies to contribute to the transformation and development of advanced social systems and human societies through ICT. The research objectives include: wellbeing research for human happiness; innovation technology for social systems through the fusion of ICT technology and social science; establishment of new technologies to eliminate threats such as cyber attacks; establishment of technologies to realize innovations to create safe social systems through the analysis and prediction of social information; creation of high-value-added social systems through data distribution and utilization that balances usability and security; new data protection technology that utilizes cryptography as well as physical properties; and creation of fundamental next-generation cryptography theories that will lead global expansion.
Vice President Yoshiaki Nakajima
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Computer and Data Science Laboratories
Computer & Data Science Laboratories are engaged in research in innovative computer science and data science that enables the processing of data that has been difficult to handle in terms of size and complexity and creates useful value for people and society.
Vice President Hiroshi Ogawa