At CEATEC 2025, NEC unveiled an excellent example of how generative AI can improve real-world safety. Its AI Driving Diagnosis system, demonstrated inside the company’s booth, turns ordinary dashcam footage into an intelligent conversation about how we drive—and how we could drive better.The concept might sound like another driver-monitoring gadget, but NEC’s approach is quite different. By combining its video recognition AI with a large language model (LLM), the system […]

At CEATEC 2025, Mitsubishi Electric showcased a vision of the workplace where technology and emotion coexist in harmony. The company’s Emoco Analytics Service connects contactless vital sensing with artificial intelligence to create a comfortable office that responds to people’s physical and emotional states in real time. During the show, I participated in the live demonstration—sitting in front of the Emoco Eye contactless sensor as it monitored my concentration and mood […]

At CEATEC 2025, Sharp drew considerable attention with Poketomo, a palm-sized AI companion that blurs the line between toy, robot, and emotional assistant. Announced in August 2025 and now showcased publicly for the first time, this 11.7 cm-tall, meerkat-inspired robot embodies Sharp’s long-term vision of “Empathy Intelligence” — technology designed not just to answer questions but to feel present in daily life.The company describes it as “a pocket-sized friend that […]

At CEATEC 2025 in Japan, TDK Corporation presented a prototype that may impact how artificial intelligence learns and reacts in real time. The company’s new Analog Reservoir AI Chip, developed in collaboration with Hokkaido University, brings biological-style, low-power learning to compact hardware. Although still a research-stage device, the prototype vividly demonstrated its potential through an interactive experience — a rock-paper-scissors game you can never win.I tried the demo in person, […]

At CEATEC 2024, JVCKENWOOD introduced a prototype of an AI-powered wireless earbud with a built-in camera, designed to combine audio, visual input, and AI processing in a single wearable device. The concept allowed users to interact hands-free with an AI assistant based on what the built-in camera captured, without needing to use a smartphone.At CEATEC 2025, the company presented an updated prototype featuring a revised design and two new demonstrations […]

When I stepped through the threshold of the IPA* pavilion at CEATEC 2025, I entered not a flashy tech demo but a deceptively simple classroom set—a wooden desk, a globe, dim ambient lighting, walls that felt intimate and familiar. Yet within moments, that stillness began to shift. The walls breathed, shadows stretched, and through the VR goggles strapped to my face, I was pulled into a delicate but expansive vision: […]