Zeon has recently invested in Knowledge Palette, a company which develops AI drug discovery technology using single-cell transcriptome analysis. Knowledge Palette applies the world’s most accurate single-cell transcriptome analysis technology (Quartz-Seq2) to acquire large-scale data on the state of disease-causing cells. By using this information and AI technology to elucidate the causes of disease outbreaks, the company aims to efficiently...
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Mitsui Chemicals and CrowdChem Use AI to Search for New Materials
Mitsui Chemicals and CrowdChem have jointly developed a technology that can consistently perform everything from the extraction of technological information that will be useful in the future to the search for new materials, utilizing AI technology. This will make it possible to improve the efficiency of new material search using natural language processing. Furthermore, by combining past achievements with generative...

Bridgestone Partners With Ascent Robotics in Push for Soft Robotics
Last month saw Bridgestone establish its first in-house venture company, Soft Robotics Ventures, in an effort to speed up advances in the realm of soft robotics. And now, as of Feb. 1, the tire manufacturer has signed a capital partnership agreement with Ascent Robotics, a developer and provider of intelligent robot systems. The agreement will see Bridgestone invest 500 million...
Sumitomo Rubber and NEC Successfully Convert Expert Designer Know-How in Tire Development into AI – Part 1
Sumitomo Rubber and NEC have collaborated to successfully develop AI of the know-how of masters (skilled designers) in tire development. The interpretation of sensory evaluation is based on communication between skilled designers and test drivers, an area that has been extremely difficult to systematize. This time, skilled designers from Sumitomo Rubber and data scientists from NEC collaborated to systematize the...
Sumitomo Rubber Develops Japan’s First Voicebot on Golf Advice
Sumitomo Rubber has newly developed Japan’s first voicebot on golf advice, introducing a conversational AI platform provided by Enoki. The system has been released free of charge on Oct. 6 as a new feature of D-Golf, the company’s smartphone application to support golf life. A voicebot is a system that uses conversational AI, voice recognition, natural language processing, and other...
Yokohama Rubber Employs Proprietary AI-Based System for Rubber Compound Design
Yokohama Rubber has worked with Hamagomu Aicom – a subsidiary focused on developing information systems – to create a proprietary compound design system that incorporates AI-based compound creation technology. The system has then come into practical use starting this July. By suggesting compounds that would be able to match a set of designated rubber properties, the AI here will let...