Honda to Begin Joint Research Project with Softbank in the Area of Artificial Intelligence
July 21 2016 - 12:53AM
JCN Newswire (English)
Honda R&D Co., Ltd., a wholly owned R&D subsidiary of
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., today announced plans to collaborate with
SoftBank Corp. and begin a joint research project toward
application of the "emotion engine", an artificial intelligence
(AI) technology developed by cocoro SB Corp., a SoftBank Group
company, for mobility products.
In order to further enhance open innovation in the area of
intelligent technologies, Honda has been preparing to start up the
Honda R&D Innovation Lab Tokyo, a new operation that will focus
on research and development of intelligent technologies, in
Akasaka, Tokyo, by around September of this year. This joint
research project with SoftBank will be one of the open innovation
initiatives Honda will pursue in the area of AI technologies.
Through this joint research project, Honda and SoftBank will strive
to enable mobility products to utilize conversations with the
driver, together with other information obtained from various
sensors and cameras installed on the mobility product, both to
perceive the emotions of the driver and to engage in dialogue with
the driver based on the vehicle's own emotions. Moreover, by
letting mobility products "grow up" while sharing various
experiences with their drivers, the project will strive to enable
drivers to experience the feeling that their mobility product has
become a good partner and thus form a stronger emotional attachment
toward it.
With the target to create new relationships between people and
mobility products, Honda will remain committed to the development
of AI technologies.
(1) The "emotion engine" is a set of AI technologies developed by
cocoro SB Corp., which enable machines to artificially generate
their own emotions.
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