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- 2026.06.19Physical AI: a make-or-break moment for Japanese robotics（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2026.06.16How AI is redefining work: the path Japan should take in the age of agents（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2026.05.22Asking what physical AI really is — Edge AI Initiative 2026（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2026.05.17The evolving Lawson: AI for ordering, robots for restocking and delivery（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2026.05.12Three ways Japan can win: the tectonic shift in factory automation（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2026.03.30Idein: system integrators hold the key to physical AI, and Japan could lead the world（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2026.03.19“Build better robots and you win” is a misconception — how Japanese companies can win at physical AI（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2025.12.09Co-developing edge AI for manufacturing that lightens the load of running production lines（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2025.11.27CTC partners with Idein to improve operations on the factory floor with edge AI（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2025.10.28Idein provides the technology behind AISIN’s conversational AI agent Saya at Japan Mobility Show 2025（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2025.10.17Phonoscape was featured in "0 Borders"（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2025.10.08GenAI/SUM closes with the Nikkei Prize going to Acompany（外部サイトへ遷移します）
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- 2025.09.16[Participants wanted] Online seminar "Creating the Future of Manufacturing with AI"
- 2025.09.13Future of Work — people and AI creating together（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2025.08.28We passed the first round of the GenAI/SUM 2025 Impact Pitch
- 2025.06.11Phonoscape launches: a voice analysis service that captures, analyses and transcribes face-to-face customer conversations（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2025.06.05Cutting development time and cost with edge AI, towards a world where anyone can use AI（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2025.05.29JR East analyses voice data from ticket counters, with generative AI expected to help against customer harassment（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2025.05.28Idein releases an AI microphone that analyses face-to-face customer service（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2025.05.28AI recognises speech even in noise, heading for use at station ticket counters（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2025.05.28Archive video published for “Unlocking generative AI with edge AI” (18 December 2024)
- 2025.05.19Multimodal conversational AI agent Saya appears at Expo 2025 Osaka, with edge AI support from Idein（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2025.04.23Started an edge AI resource-collection pilot at JR Hachioji Station
- 2025.04.07Idein turns ten
- 2025.02.06Idein featured in Bridal Sangyo Shimbun（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2025.01.16AI cameras coming to Yodoko Sakura Stadium to analyse visitors within FY2025（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2025.01.16Webinar: the impact of AI cameras in Imabari, a TRY ANGLE EHIME project
- 2025.01.06Idein targets retail and manufacturing with an AI image analysis app that classifies people and objects in video（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.12.27Featured in ASCII.jp（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.12.26AI automatically classifies people and objects in video footage: Idein's new app（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.12.20Idein ships an image analysis app using the CLIP model — detect objects by typing a prompt（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.12.19Edge generative AI brings AI development costs to zero: Idein announces an app built on OpenAI’s CLIP（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.12.18AI classifies people and objects in camera footage — a new app from Idein（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.11.25Case study: cutting unexplained loss by 75% with an AI and facial-recognition anti-shoplifting solution
- 2024.11.11AI moves from centralised cloud to distributed processing as explosive adoption forces an infrastructure shift（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.11.08Building a platform in edge AI to expand globally — Idein Inc.（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.10.31Aiming to be number one in the world in edge AI platforms: a startup working towards a future where anyone can use cutting-edge technology（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.07.19Idein and Shimizu Corporation partner on smart buildings, linking their building OS with Actcast（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.05.17Idein selected as a finalist in the Kyoto regional round of Startup World Cup 2024
- 2024.04.23Featured on TRY ANGLE EHIME's owned media（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.04.19Idein makes passenger volumes on the Toei subway visible with AI cameras（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.04.17Results of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's field-based startup collaboration project
- 2024.04.05What the AI camera saw through a department store’s assumptions — Sogo & Seibu × Idein（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.04.02Our engineer interviewed by Mirai no Oshigoto（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.03.06The edge AI cameras changing retail media — what Satudora gained after deployment（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2024.01.26CEO Nakamura to speak at the "SMART CITY REVERSE PITCH" talk event
- 2024.01.12Arm leads the ecosystem of the AI era — the scouts working behind the scenes（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2023.12.13Idein featured in Nikkei's 2023 NEXT Unicorn survey（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2023.11.10Idein selected to pitch at the ILS2023 pitch event
- 2023.10.23Featured on the financial and economic media outlet "ZUU online"（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2023.10.18Harassment-prevention efforts using face-to-face service analysis AI 'Phonoscape' featured in Nikkei（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2023.08.23Featured in Nikkei xTECH（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2023.08.21Idein to exhibit at the 2nd Commercial Facility & Retail DX Expo (30 Aug–1 Sep)
- 2023.08.21Idein's collaboration with AWL featured in The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
- 2023.08.15AWL and Idein partner in edge AI（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2023.07.24Achieving fast AI processing on affordable general-purpose devices: Idein, provider of the edge AI platform "Actcast"（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2023.07.14Sogo & Seibu analyse customer behaviour with AI, with all stores covered as early as 2027（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2023.05.18Trial at the Sogo Omiya store
- 2023.05.06FEATURE: Japan firms creating cutting-edge tech to make Society 5.0 a reality（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2023.04.13Our collaboration with Mitsubishi Estate was featured
- 2023.04.13Featured in Nikkei xTECH's "Map of Japan's AI Startups"（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2023.04.11Idein's collaboration with Aisin featured in The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
- 2023.04.05Actcast now integrates with Cybozu's kintone
- 2023.03.29Idein supported the installation of the conversational AI system 'Saya' in ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation's office
- 2023.03.27Exhibiting at ISC West 2023 - International Security Conference & Exposition (28-31 March)
- 2023.02.28Second phase of AI camera customer analysis trial begins（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2023.02.13Idein develops an AI camera with AISIN for finer-grained analysis of purchasing behaviour（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2023.02.10[DX as Discussed by Aisin, LMI Group and Idein] Actcast Webinar vol.4: Turning On-Site Data into an "Asset" (Tue 28 Feb, 15:00-15:50)
- 2023.02.10[Actcast Case Study] Adopted for Visnu's disaster-prevention DX platform
- 2023.01.27The edge AI frontline that can rescue Japan’s physical industries — turning every space with people in it into an asset（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2023.01.24Won an award at the MLIT-hosted "PLATEAU Startup Pitch"
- 2022.12.15Idein featured in DX magazine 'Edge AI Frontline'（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.12.08Featured in the 6th NEXT Unicorn survey (Nikkei)（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.11.24How Idein and Aisin envision the potential of "EMOtive A.I." through "Saya"（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.11.11[Speaking Engagement] CEO Nakamura to speak at an on-site seminar at "EdgeTech+ 2022"
- 2022.11.04[Development Support] AI High Schooler "Saya" Appears at the "HELLO! SHIBUYA" Promotion Space at SEIBU Shibuya
- 2022.10.14Second phase of Actcast-based customer analysis begins at Sogo & Seibu
- 2022.10.12[Event Support] Get to know Saya — learn how the AI high schooler works and the making of Saya through a live conversation
- 2022.09.15Holding "Actcast Webinar vol.3 - More on AI Adoption: On-Site DX Edition" (Thu 29 Sep, 12:00-12:45)
- 2022.09.12Extracting data through image recognition & analysis: the future of Actcast, Japan's top-share edge AI platform [Interview with Idein Executive Officer Shunsuke Ozawa]（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.08.29Idein featured in "MONOist"（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.08.29Idein, an AI/IoT venture starting to scale, tackles MLOps through active learning in edge AI（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.08.26[Event] CEO Nakamura to speak on a panel at "Aiming for the World with Deep Tech"
- 2022.08.05[Free Trial] Campaign begins offering up to two weeks free on AI cameras useful for data utilization in retail and manufacturing
- 2022.08.01Nousaku's traditional-craft products go on sale at JR East's online-assisted store using Actcast AI cameras
- 2022.07.27Idein opens up its edge AI technology to external app developers（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.07.27Speaking at a webinar hosted by PALTEK Corporation (held online on 8/4)
- 2022.07.21Our work with Sogo & Seibu featured in "TECH+"（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.07.08Idein featured in AI news media AINOW（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.07.07[Development Support] AI Interview by "Saya" (Wonder Festival 2022 [Summer])
- 2022.06.20Idein featured in the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun series 'Titans of Deep Tech'
- 2022.06.16Holding "Actcast Webinar vol.2 - Sogo & Seibu's AI Camera Use Case" (6/30 Thu, 14:00-14:45)
- 2022.06.09[Chasing Deep Tech] "Turning Every Industry into Software" — Aiming to Spread AI with Affordable Devices（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.06.06Idein featured on Aperza TV, a video platform for manufacturing（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.06.06Exhibiting at "NVIDIA AI DAYS 2022" (23-24 June, online)
- 2022.05.25Featured in the "Edge AI Chaos Map 2022"（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.05.20Our collaboration with Sogo & Seibu featured in Nikkei MJ
- 2022.05.20Idein featured in IT trade magazine "Weekly BCN"（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.05.04CEO Nakamura featured in the print edition of Nikkei（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.04.18Idein featured on Response, Japan's largest general automotive news site（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.04.15Featured in ITmedia's "MONOist"（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.04.04The "Otona no Kaidan" interview video（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.03.23Notice Regarding the End of Service for the Cloud Security AI Camera "Milsil"
- 2022.03.23Idein featured in the May 2022 issue of "Keizaikai" magazine（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2022.03.17Hosting "Actcast Webinar vol.1" (Wed 30 March, 15:00-15:45)
- 2022.03.01We renewed our corporate website
- 2022.01.19Idein joins ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation's digital platform as a co-creation partner
- 2021.12.24Idein to exhibit at the J-Startup/JAPAN Pavilion at CES 2022 (Las Vegas, USA, 5–8 January 2022)
- 2021.09.24Idein-hosted online seminar announcement
- 2021.09.21Our Actcast Adopted for SORD's Network Camera
- 2021.08.04Our work with KDDI was introduced（外部サイトへ遷移します）
- 2021.07.30Our Actcast platform was adopted for Sord's network cameras
- 2021.06.30Announcing a business partnership with Treasure Data, Inc.
- 2021.06.15Idein-hosted webinar: 4th "AI/IoT Roundtable" announced
- 2021.06.09Launch of an edge AI camera package co-developed with KDDI
- 2021.03.02Notice Regarding Our Collaboration with Aisin Seiki
- 2020.11.13Announcing the seminar 'AI/IoT Roundtable'
- 2020.08.18Body-temperature detection AI device co-developed with CTC deployed as first project under 'MUGENLABO Support Program 2020'
- 2020.07.30A body-temperature-detecting AI device co-developed with CTC was adopted at KDDI's directly operated stores
- 2019.07.31Released the beta version of Actcast
- 2019.03.18Office relocation notice
- 2018.12.11Released Actcast alpha version
- 2018.01.15Office relocation notice