◼︎TEPIA Tour

Fat Content:

A special tour will be given by Mr. Fujita of Liberace, featuring a collection of cutting-edge technologies on display! Students and faculty are welcome to attend!

Fatigue time:

1) 13:00-13:30 2) 14:30-15:00

About ◼︎TEPIA Advanced Technology Pavilion

The TEPIA Advanced Technology Pavilion aims to provide young people, including junior high and high school students who will lead the next generation, with opportunities to experience the wonder, fun, and dynamism of advanced technology as well as social issues for the future, and to foster a spirit of challenge in solving problems and developing technology. We are also aiming to foster a spirit of challenge in problem-solving and technological development.

In addition to cutting-edge technologies in various fields that are expected to create new value, such as new bio-materials, ICT that will change society, and healthcare that is required for the world's longest-living society, we will focus on robot technology, which will lead the growth of Japanese industry, as a new theme for 2015, and gather and introduce various Japanese manufacturing technologies that are available there. The exhibition introduces various Japanese monozukuri technologies.

◼︎ Featured Exhibits

Shirai Akihiko Laboratory, Kanagawa Institute of TechnologyManga Generator (Shunkan Shonen Marumaru)

Manga Generator Shunkan Shonen Marumaru" uses motion capture, which works in conjunction with the camera to read the movements of people, allowing users to enter the manga and advance their own personal story. The system adjusts the position of speech balloons and sound effects according to the position of the person, allowing the viewer to enter the frame without discomfort. The computer understands "fun" by reading emotions from the positioning of both elbows, sides, and back, displaying backgrounds that match them, and evaluating the finished manga.

Orii Research Institute Corporation OriHime

OriHime" has a built-in webcam, speaker, and sound-collecting microphone, allowing the user to share what "OriHime" sees and hears through a PC or tablet terminal. It can also move its head by remote control, allowing it to look around freely. For example, a child in the hospital could leave "OriHime" at home and join the family conversation circle while in the hospital room.
OriHime" does not have facial expressions, but its face, which was designed based on a Noh mask, its voice, and its movements allow people around it to sense its facial expressions.

Fasotec Corporation Bio-Texture Modeling

Do you know where your liver is located in your body? And if you had to operate on that liver, could you visualize where and how the scalpel would be inserted? In the past, surgical procedures were explained while looking at CT scans and other images taken at the site of surgery. However, it was difficult to imagine what the surgery would look like, and it was difficult to eliminate anxiety about the surgery. To solve this problem, we have developed a technology to create custom-made 3D models of the patient's organs to be operated on, using a 3D printer and several types of resin to make only some of the tissue transparent so that the blood vessels and bones inside can be seen and the diseased areas can be identified.