Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used to change diapers or prevent bedsores in the elderly.

Straker is partnering with IGUAZU Corporation, famed for its role distributing IBM products in the Japanese tech market, to launch a transformative AI-powered solution to help Japan’s financial sector meet new bilingual disclosure rules.

The AI-driven Robot for Embrace and Care (AIREC) was designed by a team of researchers at Waseda University to carry out tasks such as changing diapers or performing movements to prevent sores among bedridden elderly people or patients in critical care.

STORY: From the tech taking over Barcelona, to why bots are learning to look after Japanese seniors, this is AI Weekly. The new tech was front and center at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The new agreement promises to boost the UK- Japan's £27 billion a year trade relationship, with particular focus on defence and AI. It comes as Japan seeks reliable partners in the wake of Donald Trump's treatment of Nato allies over Ukraine.

TOKYO/WASHINGTON -- The AUKUS security grouping has approached Japan with a proposal to conduct joint research on developing artificial intelligence for aerial drones that would accompany Tokyo's next-generation fighter jets, Nikkei has learned.

Amid the hyper-generalist era generative AI is ushering in, architects can be specialists maximising their social value and pushing for transformative change, argues Muyiwa Oki

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According to Toyoshima & Co., Ltd., a major Nagoya-based textile trading company, its self-developed “Virtual Standard AI-Pattern” system unveiled in January 2024 has already been used by a major apparel company for the development of new products.

Winthrop University computer science professor Sebastian van Delden shows how articifial intelligence is already reshaping South Carolina.

Press Release Fin Capital, a global asset manager specializing in B2B Fintech, announced today that it will establish a formal presence in Asia, opening an office in Tokyo as its Asia headquarters. Fin made the announcement in conjunction with the GFTN Forum Japan,