TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 12, 2019--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced six new technologies, outlined below, at its annual Research and Development Open House held today at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, including three artificial intelligence (AI) technologies using the company's proprietary Maisart * AI. * M itsubishi Electric's AI creates the S tate-of-the- ART in technology The company announced today that it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology capable of fast stepwise learning using a simulator to efficiently complete motion learning in a relatively short time using the company's Maisart AI technology. The company announced today that it has developed a unique behavioral-analysis artificial intelligence (AI) using the company's Maisart AI technology. The company announced today that it has developed what is believed to be the world's smallest power unit for a two-motor hybrid electric vehicle (two inverters and one converter), measuring just 2.7 liters in volume, offering a world-leading 150 kVA/L power density. The company announced today that it has developed sensing technology for highly accurate detection of vehicle perimeters even in dense fog or heavy rain. The company announced today that it has developed a simulation technology for predicting energy consumption and comfort levels to operate net zero energy buildings (ZEBs).

At MIT's 2016 Open House last spring, more than 100 visitors took rides on an autonomous mobility scooter in a trial of software designed by researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the National University of Singapore, and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). The researchers had previously used the same sensor configuration and software in trials of autonomous cars and golf carts, so the new trial completes the demonstration of a comprehensive autonomous mobility system. A mobility-impaired user could, in principle, use a scooter to get down the hall and through the lobby of an apartment building, take a golf cart across the building's parking lot, and pick up an autonomous car on the public roads. The new trial establishes that the researchers' control algorithms work indoors as well as out. "We were testing them in tighter spaces," says Scott Pendleton, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a research fellow at SMART.

In case you haven't noticed, there's yet another major shift in technology. This one has to do with the A.I. and chatbots that help us in our daily lives and at work. They offer many advantages, but adjusting to them has been no easy task. Despite some of the massive advancements we've made in tech, it's clear we're still in an "adjustment period" -- with A.I., in particular. Natural selection is taking its course, as individuals and entire industries are forced to get smart or fall behind.

Junior Austin Imperial and Senior Alex Hodge play with companion robot PARO at the School of Informatics & Computing's Intelligent Systems Open House event Friday afternoon at Georgian Room in the Indiana Memorial Union. The open house featured students presenting their research, live demonstrations, and the introduction of different types of robots in computing.

The AAAI-15 organizing committee of about 60 researchers arranged many of the traditional AAAI events, including the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) Conference, tutorials, workshops, the video competition, senior member summary talks (on well-developed bodies of research or important new research areas), and What's Hot talks (on research trends observed in other AIrelated conferences and, for the first time, competitions). Innovations of AAAI-15 included software and hardware demonstration programs, a virtual agent exhibition, a computer-game showcase, a funding information session with program directors from different funding agencies, and Blue Sky Idea talks (on visions intended to stimulate new directions in AI research) with awards funded by the CRA Computing Community Consortium. Seven invited talks surveyed AI research in academia and industry and its impact on society. Attendees kept track of the program through a smartphone app as well as social media channels.