Artificial Intelligence

Vaak, a Japanese startup, has developed artificial intelligence software that hunts for potential shoplifters, using footage from security cameras for fidgeting, restlessness and other potentially suspicious body language.

Minato City Hall has [...] established a service for, basically, anybody to ask questions and have artificial intelligence answer right away in English and easy Japanese, depending on what users choose.

The operator of Narita International Airport near Tokyo said Thursday it will introduce in spring 2020 a facial recognition technology-based system that enables passengers to board planes, after check-in, without showing their passports or boarding passes.

Dr. Chieko Asakawa’s life motto: Make the impossible possible — by never giving up.

NTT Docomo Inc. and Tohoku University announced plans to jointly develop artificial intelligence technology that can detect gum disease by analyzing photographs taken on smartphones.

“The human race, version 2” — a thought to inspire hope or fear, maybe a little (or a lot) of both. “We today,” says Komazawa University economist Tomohiro Inoue, whose thought it is, “will soon be ‘the former human race.'”

The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry is supporting the development of an artificial intelligence program that helps diabetics improve their dietary and other daily habits to prevent their condition from becoming severe, sources have said.

“Smart farming,” which brings together cutting-edge robotics and artificial intelligence, could hold the key to an agricultural resurgence in a nation of graying farmers and workers reluctant to toil in soil.

The industry ministry has begun a project to support the development of artificial intelligence tools that help diabetics improve their diet and daily habits, to prevent their condition from worsening, sources have said.

Medical diagnostic services using artificial intelligence are set to be introduced this year in Japan, where the adoption of information technology in health care has been slow, sources said Monday.