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AI for Healthy Skin

In the present society, rapidly developing artificial intelligence (AI) has brought new ways of managing skins. For those who care about their own skin conditions, good skin care is very important. Ho...

Co-Creating World's First Bandsaw Safety Solution with OMRON Technologies

The meat processing industry is one of the key industry sectors in Australia and creates employment for more than 400,000 people through direct and indirect means. Globally, the demand for meat is exp...

Sustainable Automation: OMRON's Vertical Farming Solution

Automated vertical farming is developing rapidly. The vertical farming market is expected to reach $24.11 Billion by 2030*1. The sustainable farming concept was pioneered in the United Kingdom by Inte...

OMRON's Switching Technology Brings Victory to Professional eSports Players

Recent years have seen a rapid rise in the popularity of eSports, which is now played for the health promotion of the elderly and as a recreational event for corporate employees. With player numbers t...

Innovating Digital Technology, Enjoying Digital Future

On November 5, the fourth China International Import Expo (CIIE) had its grand opening in the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai). As a global manufacturer of industrial automation co...

Touchless Technology Enhances Safety and Reliability of the "New Normal"

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of the world in many aspects. One such change to our everyday lives is the spread of contactless apparatuses. OMRON supports new-normal lifestyles with indus...

Sowing the Seeds of New Science and Nurturing Innovation

How will our lives be changed by popularization of remote healthcare, online education, autonomous vehicles, and unmanned delivery drones? Society can be reshaped dramatically by new technologies that...

Enriching Communication on Smartphones and in Medical Settings

What comes to mind when you hear "character input?" It could be any information terminal, like smartphones, computers, or tablet computers, but the fact is that we enter characters on so many occasion...

AI Is Already Beside Us [Part II]

Nowadays, we often see the word AI on a daily basis. The word took wings among society, however many of us may not know what AI actually is or have a firm understanding of it. In this article, we will...

AI Is Already Beside Us [Part I]

Nowadays, we often hear the word AI on a daily basis. The word took wings among society, however many of us may not know what AI actually is or have a firm understanding of it. In this article, we wil...

Clean Energy for the Future: How Solar Power Works

Did you know Japan is one of the countries that installation of solar power is widespread? Looking at the amount of power generated by country, Japan generates around 63 million kW*1 annually, making ...

Creative Use of CAE in the New Normal Era

Recent years have seen companies across Japan adopting digital technology to transform their services and businesses (digital transformation, or "DX"). Following the announcement in September 2020 of ...

Seeking the Ultimate Gaming Mouse for Professional Gamers

With player numbers topping 100 million globally, eSports seems to know no boundaries. By definition, eSports is a form of sport competition involving video games. As long as you have the requisite de...

"AI suitcase" for a Symbiotic Society, Bringing Together the Technologies of Five Companies

According to the WHO, the number of people with some form of visual impairment is estimated to be as high as 2.2 billion people around the world (*1). With the aim of realizing a society where the vis...

OMRON's Technology Used in Vending Machines Across Cities

Vending machines can be found all over cities, towns and station platforms in Japan and it is now a part of Japanese people's daily lives. To operate this vending machine, do you know how many parts a...

OMRON's Next-generation Automation for the New Normal Era

In the new normal era caused by COVID-19, automation technology plays a greater role than ever before. There is a growing expectation for automation that allows machines to not only perform tasks to t...

Corporate Venture Capital that collects "The World's Most Cutting-edge technologies"

OMRON believes that, to solve social issues that are becoming increasingly serious and diverse, it is important to create new business and strengthen existing businesses through open innovation that i...

Sensing as Five Senses of Machine

Sensors and sensing technology support affluent lives in every possible scene of public facilities, such as offices, factories, stations and at home. In addition, its importance increases more and mor...

From "tool-type" to "autonomous and general-purpose": Progress of AI towards a good partner for humans

The topic of AI is making headlines in the general media and business journals every day. For example, "AI will take away human jobs," "AI will streamline the diagnosis of diseases," "AI will help chi...

Story Behind the Rise of the World's First FDA-Approved Wearable Blood Pressure Monitor

Essential at any medical consultation, blood pressure monitors play an indispensable role in the early detection of abnormal blood pressure. In Japan, it is estimated that 43 million*1 persons are hyp...

A Big Step Towards the Future Where Machines Can Unlock Human Potential

OMRON's vision of the future of man-machine interaction is the "harmony between humans and machines", where machines bring out human abilities and creativity to the fullest extent. The table tennis ro...

Towards Shaping the Factory of the Future

Germany, a leading manufacturing country in EU Germany, a major European manufacturing power has developed into one of the world's prominent economic powers through fierce development of their industr...

"FROM THE FACTORY OF THE WORLD" --Kusatsu and Ayabe-- (Part Ⅱ)

"FROM THE FACTORY OF THE WORLD Kusatsu and Ayabe" introduces OMRON Kusatsu Plant and Ayabe Plant continue to challenge to realize high-quality manufacturing similar to mass production of small varieti...

Combating counterfeit products to realize a better society in Russia

Illegal traffic of counterfeit products remains one of the major problems in Russia. According to the Russian Ministry of Health, about 58,000 people died of alcohol poisoning in the country in 2016, ...

"FROM THE FACTORY OF THE WORLD" --Kusatsu and Ayabe-- (Part I)

In today's increasingly diversified consumer tastes and preferences, in the manufacturing industry, it is important to deliver fine-tuned product tailored to individual tastes. It is necessary to prep...

IXI･Innovation Platform designed to create 'innovation driven by social needs' by transcending the boundaries of business divisions

Maizuru is a city in Kyoto Prefecture with a population of about 80,000. This municipality launched a project to revitalize its community by forming a partnership with OMRON. As introduced in Part I, ...

Breaking away from a manufacturing culture reliant on craftsmanship

"It was really tough to derive the right answer from something intangible." Yoshinori Inoue, an engineer at OMRON's Automation Center, who oversaw the equipment program standardization project, looks ...

A future that makes people happy through human-machine collaborations

The fifth generation FORPHEUS has abilities and behaviors that are much closer to those of a human. What kind of future will await us beyond this? Satoshi Yase, leader of the fifth generation FORPHEUS...

How close can a robot approach the behavior of a human?

FORPHEUS, the table tennis playing robot, has evolved every year, showcasing OMRON's flagship core technologies. The newest fifth generation FORPHEUS is packed with advanced technologies to enable add...

From the Crossroads of East and West: Innovating the World's Manufacturing Industry

The Republic of Turkey is unique in that it spans two continents, Asia and Europe. In 2018, its population exceeded 80 million people. The economic growth of this nation, located at the crossroads of...

Co-creating a Smart Factory with AISIN AW

AISIN AW Co., Ltd. (AW hereafter), with its headquarters located in Aichi Prefecture, is one of the world's largest manufacturers of automobile parts. In particular, its share in the AT (automatic tr...

Experience Factory Harmony with OMRON Robots

A pioneer in factory automation, OMRON has developed many automation solutions for a diverse range of usage situations. These various solutions were on display at CES2019. OMRON's booth was divided i...

"FROM THE FACTORY OF THE WORLD" --Shanghai--

OMRON Industrial Automation business envisions the creation of future manufacturing sites where humans and machines work together in harmony. Our factories also focus on productivity quality innovati...

[The Industry's First] Placing AI on the machine controller rather than in the cloud

"Achieving zero defects while saving manpower by utilizing maximum equipment functionality."In an attempt to support an "ideal factory" for a future as envisioned by people in the field of manufactur...

Helping manufacturers provide quality products to customers

Today, shelves in supermarkets around the world are full of FMCG (Fast-Moving Consumer Goods). Factories of various FMCG manufacturers are striving to provide quality products accurately and quickly t...

The Futuristic Manufacturing That Open Innovation Accelerates

From the manufacturing floor, to the personnel as well as to the method in which things are made across the board, there have been major transformations in factories in recent years that, day after da...

5th Generation FORPHEUS's First Show @CES 2019

From 8th to 11th January 2019, OMRON Corporation exhibited for the second consecutive year at CES, an annual tech event of the largest scale in the world, with more than 4,500 exhibitors from across t...

[Technology Infographics] Futuristic Technologies for 2033

Technologies have been advancing rapidly and automation has made our life convenient. Now, the practical application of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and IoT (Internet of Things) have attracted attent...

Revolutionizing the manufacturing scene with the visualization of master craftsmanship

Today, as the population ages and fewer children are born, securing a workforce and technical capabilities is a challenge faced across the entire manufacturing industry. The transfer of experts' skill...

I want to broaden the potential of robotics for industrial solutions

From factories to parcel delivery services to the medical field, the opportunities in which robots are active in our lives have increased in recent years. With things like the debate over how much rob...

IARS - OMRON's innovative-Automation Journey

During Jun. 5th-8th, 2018, China (Wuhan) International Automation & Robotics Show was held in Wuhan, China. OMRON was highly praised at the show for its perfect interpretation of industrial automa...

"Near-future designs" Drives Innovation

At the new business announcement on April 25, 2018, "Would we need traffic signals if we have a fully automated traffic network?" asks Masaki Suwa, the CEO / Director of OMRON SINIC X Corporation. Suc...

Safety first in manufacturing

Korea has grown into an economic giant since the 1970's from manufacturing high-quality fabrics, steel, vessels, semi-conductors, automobile, electronics, and mobile devices. OMRON Korea decided to ta...

Open Innovation sheds new light on agriculture

Society changes, and a variety of needs and social issues inevitably arise around the world. This is a story of how OMRON utilizes open innovation to turn ideas into reality to fulfill necessities and...

China's Evolution in Manufacturing Innovation

China used to be called "the world's factory" hosting a great number of labor intensive industries. Today, China is evolving into an innovation epicenter, creating new technologies including devices s...

OMRON Engaged Visitors with Transformative Human-Machine Integration at CES

CES 2018 As many of you know, CES is known as the largest electronics exhibition in the world, with over 4,000 exhibiting companies, 184,000 attendees which includes 7,460 media attendees from around ...

Exploring What It Means to be Human: Crossing AI and Neurology

Imagine a factory with an ideally optimized human and machine environment. What would it be like? Machines would definitely not be dominating the factory, nor would humans simply be using machines. OM...

Preventing Major Cardiovascular Illnesses with Self-monitoring

According to the WHO, more people die annually from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) than from any other cause. One of the primary cause of CVD is high blood pressure - when left untreated, the damage th...

Collaborative Robotics

Robots have drastically evolved. They are now performing medical miracles and working in places that are too dangerous for humans; carrying out complex and tedious tasks to save humans time and effort...

The evolution of electronics in society is supported by electronic components

Smartphones are an indispensable part of daily life. While the core concept of a phone is to communicate, smartphones nowadays are used for many additional jobs such as controlling lighting, controlli...

Delivering technology that helps individuals grow

In the past the main design criteria for industrial robots was to improve productivity and to work at a higher efficiency than humans. Now however, the relationship between humans and robots is not as...

Listening to the voice of the customers, OMRON production site Engineers

How to master a robot? OMRON are consulted daily about problems at production sites, for example "Can we reduce the labor involved in packing products from a conveyor belt?" Many of these customers al...

Can an employee's hobby lead to a revelation in the workplace?

A unique variation on the conventional production line, a shared hobby among development members - radio control and plastic models - The world of manufacturing is in for a potential upset due to a ne...

We want more people to experience technology that helps them grow while having fun

In the past, robots, particularly industrial robots, were required to enhance work efficiency and increase productivity by means of processing capacity that surpasses that of human operators. Today, ...

Improving on the job safety for radiologists

Medical technology was forever transformed when, in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays. Since his discovery, X-ray machines and CT scanners have become an indispensable diagnostic tool in the med...

The Never Sleeping Driver

As a society, we are soon reaching a future where the responsibility of road safety will be in the hands of AI. At OMRON Research institute, we have a designated international division working on dev...

A "thoughtful" robot that builds a never

Yoshihisa Ijiri, who earned his doctorate in information science, specializes in image processing and machine learning at OMRON, pursuing areas like facial image processing and image sensing algorithm...

What does it take to merge AI and Manufacturing?

kira Nakajima is an information-science specialist at OMRON. He is the person who brings worldwide cutting edge information and communications technology (ICT) and artificial intelligence (AI) to OMRO...

AI can help machines and people grow together

FORPHEUS keeps evolving every year as a state-of-the-art machine that presages a future in which people and machines live and work in harmony. Why was this robot created? What kind of evolution will ...

Mission: Develop in six months a machine that will work together with people to achieve a shared goal!

FORPHEUS keeps evolving every year as a state-of-the-art machine that presages a future in which people and machines live and work in harmony. Why was this robot created? What kind of evolution will ...

A future where machines will motivate people

FORPHEUS keeps evolving every year as a state-of-the-art machine that presages a future in which people and machines live and work in harmony. Why was this robot created? What kind of evolution will ...