Toyota Brings a Generative Design Seat Frame to the Next Level With AI
For the future of comfortable car interiors, Toyota uses generative design to create a seat frame that is safe, lightweight, beautiful, and sustainable.
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Yasui Architects Uses Visual Building Data to Help Clients Optimize Operations
Tokyo’s Yasui Architects and Engineers’ BuildCAN BIM platform helps clients visualize building data to optimize operations and maintenance.
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How Honda Ditched Conventional Thinking to Design a Lighter Crankshaft
In Japan, Honda R&D has been working collaboratively toward a more efficient automotive future with lighter crankshafts.
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The Race Is on in Japan to Build a Space Elevator Through Open Innovation
In Japan, concepts for space elevators are being developed, and the finish line to the final frontier is within reach.
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A Typhoon-Proof Wind Turbine Is Generating an Energy Shift for Remote Islands
Challenergy has developed a bladeless, typhoon-proof wind turbine, which furthers its mission to realize a hydrogen power–based society.
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The Cambrian Battery Replaces Rare Earth Metals With Organic Materials
Meet PJP Eye's Cambrian Battery, which uses plant-based materials for a safe, long-lasting, high-capacity portable battery.
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Solar-Power Innovator afterFIT Is Fueling Japan’s Green Energy Shift
In Japan, green-energy company afterFIT is realizing low-carbon goals using drones, 3D design, and simulation.
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Where to Order When 80 Sextillion Product Variations Aren’t Enough
Japanese company MISUMI has 80 sextillion predefined variations in its Manufacturing catalog, and its new AI-infused service, meviy, offers custom-ordered parts.
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How a Generative-Design Japanese Archery Bow Is Reviving a Revered Sport
A longtime lover of the sport is using generative design to create the perfect Japanese archery bow: lightweight, balanced, and precise.
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Stunning Wooden Architecture in Japan Exemplifies How BIM Helps Construction
In Japan, a construction firm and its contractor learned firsthand how BIM helps construction, using digital communication to build one of the largest wooden roofs in the country.
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Can a Table-Tennis Robot Serve Up the Future of Human-Machine Collaboration?
Japanese manufacturer OMRON envisions a bright future for human-machine collaboration. Its test case is a table-tennis robot named FORPHEUS. It's fun and games—with real-world benefits.
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Injection-Mold Cooling and Generative Design Save Panasonic Engineers’ Sanity
A new Panasonic initiative uses generative design to automatically design injection mold–cooling water pipes, thus greatly reducing the burden on human designers.
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Japan’s Futuristic EQ House Uses AI and BIM to Bring the Outside World In
In Tokyo, the Takenaka Corporation and Mercedes-Benz have collaborated on EQ House—a project that brings technology, mobility, and human-centered design together.
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Japan’s First Private Rocket Launches With the Help of Agile Development
Interstellar Technologies has launched Japan's first private rocket to reach outer space. Now, the race is on for its new Zero rocket to reach low-earth orbit and deploy microsatellites.
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Japan’s Daiwa House Industry Is Using Generative Design to Retool Urban Housing
In Japan, land is scarce and housing demand continues to grow. Enter Daiwa House Industry, a construction firm using generative-design principles to reimagine how homes are built.
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Japan’s DENSO Takes on the Engine Control Unit, a Small but Mighty Auto Part
In Japan, auto-parts manufacturer DENSO has created an award-winning redesign of the engine control unit—the "brain" of a car—which could have a massive impact on efficiency and emissions.
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NEXCO Has a Vision for the Future of Autonomous Expressways in Japan
With the proliferation of self-driving cars on the horizon, NEXCO is prepping with a smart-highway system in Japan using 3D models, big data, and integrated AI.
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After a Tunnel Construction Triumph in Japan, All Eyes Are on CIM (not BIM)
For construction in Japan, adopting CIM (Construction Information Modeling/Management) has been an uphill battle—until now. If you build a modern tunnel, the industry will follow.
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Team ROK’s Life-Saving Drone, X VEIN, Takes Flight With Generative Design
Inspired to help others following the 2011 Japan earthquake, two teens set out to build a life-saving drone—and made it a reality with generative design.
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With Bio-Texture Modeling, Feeling Is Believing for 3D-Printed Replica Organs
Discover the groundbreaking work of Japanese surgeon Maki Sugimoto, whose Bio-Texture Modeling technology uses 3D printing to create lifelike human organs.
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