Professor Manabu Hashimoto, Faculty of Engineering, Chukyo University, Professor Hironobu Fujiyoshi, Faculty of Engineering, Chubu University, and Haruhisa Okuda, Advanced Technology Research Institute, Mitsubishi Electric Co., Ltd. Received the "Technical Award" jointly.
MH is an abbreviation for Material Handling, and refers to technologies and methods for effectively transporting and managing raw materials, products, and components.Professor Hashimoto et al. Received the "Technology Award" in 2017, when they participated in the "Amazon Robotics Challenge *", which was a joint team of Chukyo University, Mitsubishi Electric, and Chubu University. Was praised for its significant contribution to the development of the material handling field in Japan.Artificial intelligence and robot automation technology have been worked on by three organizations over three years.
In the near future, online shopping will become the mainstream, and the era will come when most products including fresh food can be bought by mail order, and it is expected that a major revolutionary change will occur in the distribution and logistics industry.At that time, robot automation technology that makes full use of artificial intelligence technology may become the core of the MH field.
In response to this award, Professor Hashimoto said, "By receiving such a big award, I think that not only did we recognize the intelligent robot technology of our university, but we also made a great contribution from the perspective of industry-academia collaboration. "."
* The Amazon Robotics Challenge is a robot contest sponsored by the Amazon.com Group in the United States.Participate in teams from all over the world and compete for picking robot technology, which is difficult to automate in logistics work.The number of products taken out and stored within a certain period of time will be scored.
