Research News
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26 Jul, 2024
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation and Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba Group) have developed technology that mitigates the parasitic oscillation that occurs during switching operations by power modules with silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs connected in parallel, even with a 60% smaller gate resistance than is typical. The technology reduces power loss in power modules, mitigates oscillation, and realizes highly reliable switching operations.
15 May, 2024
Toshiba Europe Ltd today announced it has developed a fully on-chip quantum random number generator ready for serial assembly. This advance will enable the mass manufacture of this quantum security technology, bringing its application to a much wider range of real-life scenarios.
10 May, 2024
TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation has developed the world’s first AI for precise control of complex robot operations using ‘offline reinforcement learning’ with a small amount of data. Toshiba evaluated this AI by simulation of eight types of tasks, such as picking and placing objects, in a publicly available benchmark environment. The average success rate, which was 36% with conventional methods, improved to 72% with the newly developed AI, achieving world-class precision.
08 May, 2024
Toshiba Corporation has developed an unsupervised image classification AI that significantly improves the accuracy for benchmark images from 27.6% to 83.0%. This is achieved by utilizing our proprietary deep-learning-based unsupervised AI, which classifies types of defects and failures in inspection images accumulated at the manufacturing site without any manual labeling tasks.
22 Apr, 2024
TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation, a pathfinder in quantum technology, has applied it quantum-inspired optimization solution, the Simulated Bifurcation Machine (SBM) to optimal time and frequency allocation for 5G communications, and, for the first time ever, succeeded in allocating resources to 20 terminals in less than 0.5 ms. This achievement surpasses the minimum transmission delay of 1.0 ms expected in the 5G standard.
12 Apr, 2024
Kawasaki, Japan – Toshiba Corporation has started two demonstration experiments exploring advanced energy conservation and security in its office in Innovation Palette, its state-of-the-art R&D facility in Kawasaki, Japan: an energy conservation demonstration that estimates people flows to provide optimal control of lighting and air conditioning; and a security demonstration that combines Toshiba’s video analysis AI with cocobo, a security robot developed by SECOM Co. Ltd. Both demonstrations utilize an operational digital twin, which recognizes spaces, people, and energy usage, using data collected from sensors and cameras to realize appropriate control and optimization of facilities.
15 Dec, 2023
TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation has developed three innovative systems (two high-speed real-time trading systems and one asset management system) that, using quantum-inspired optimization computers, Toshiba’s simulated bifurcation machines (SBMs), detect ever-untargeted trading opportunities through quickly analyzing the complicated correlations between many stock prices in Japanese stock market, and demonstrated the execution capability and effectiveness of those systems.
12 Dec, 2023
Toshiba has developed an AI-based high-dimensional Bayesian optimization technology for automatically optimizing large numbers of parameters that would be difficult to explore manually while designing devices such as high-performance power semiconductors and advanced materials.
05 Dec, 2023
TOKYO —Toshiba Corporation has developed the world’s first microwave remote power transfer system that can wirelessly transfer power to remote locations while coexisting with wireless LANs (Wi-Fi). The developed system includes interference avoidance functions that allow efficient power transfer to targeted locations without disrupting local wireless LAN communications, along with technologies that enable efficient power reception regardless of the receiving antenna’s orientation.
30 Nov, 2023
TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation have developed world-first technologies for the control of robot movement routes based on radio maps as part of NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) ’s “Research and Development Project of the Enhanced Infrastructures for Post-5G Information and Communication Systems”, successfully controlling a mobile robot swarm in real time using a server centralization technology and Local 5G.
28 Nov, 2023
TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation has developed a new lithium-ion battery using a cobalt-free 5V-class high-potential cathode material that significantly suppresses performance-degrading gases produced as side reactions. This battery can operate at a wide range of applications, from power tools to electric vehicles.
10 Oct, 2023
Driven by the opportunities arising from the energy transition and decarbonization trends, Bekaert and Toshiba Corporation’s energy arm, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS), are accelerating their growth strategies in renewable energy markets, particularly in green hydrogen production utilizing Hydrogen Production Technology with Reduced Iridium developed by Toshiba.
26 Sep, 2023
TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), has announced world-first advances in LiDAR: technologies that secure an unmatched accuracy of 99.9% in object tracking and object recognition of 98.9% with data acquired by the LiDAR alone. The technologies also significantly improve the environmental robustness and the potential for using LiDAR in many different applications.
LiDAR, light detection and ranging that uses a laser to measure distances to objects, has long been a mainstay of advanced driving and autonomous driving systems. More recently, in combination with cameras, it has been used to create digital twins—virtual replicas of real-world objects and systems that can be used to model performance in order to identify problems and to improve operations in many industries.
21 Sep, 2023
Düsseldorf, Germany – Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) an innovator in technologies for a better future, has established a “Regenerative Innovation Centre” (“the Centre”) in Düsseldorf, Germany, where it will work with business partners and collaborators to accelerate leading-edge capabilities in advancing the realization of carbon neutrality and a circular economy (“CN-CE”) through digitalization.
12 Sep, 2023
TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) and Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation have developed an AI for road surface anomaly detection that enables highly accurate real-time detection of potholes on the surface of expressways that may lead to a serious accident, and the effectiveness of this AI technology was verified by improving routine inspection of expressways by the Central Nippon Expressway Company Limited (NEXCO Central). Results were promising for real-world application of this pothole detection system using AI.