Tokyo Institute of Technology

When it comes to tracking the positions of a person's moving hand, sensor-equipped gloves are often used. An experimental new system, however, utilizes a wrist-mounted camera … which doesn't even "see" the user's fingers.

One of the largest natural sources of renewable energy could be right under our feet – literally – with geothermal energy. Now researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Sanoh Industrial have developed a new type of battery cell that can directly convert heat energy into electricity.

The Tokyo Institute of Technology and Bridgestone Tires have developed a new hydraulic robotic muscle that is lightweight, yet is five to ten times as strong as conventional electric motors.

Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology are developing a cooking simulator that lets users cook up a virtual steak.

Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology are developing a humanoid robot called Sumanoid, which is able to reproduce realistic swimming strokes.

Air Hair is a virtual reality hair cutting simulator

July 22, 2006 Panasonic (AKA Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd) certainly comes up with some interesting and original promotional concepts for its Oxyride