GROOVE X Co., Ltd.
The book by Kaname Hayashi, the creator of “LOVOT,” won the Innovation Category Award at the “Readers’ Choice Business Book Grand Prix 2024.” To celebrate, we have published a new edition of “Warm Technology: Future Stories”!
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Robot venture GROOVE We are pleased to announce that we have won the Innovation Category Award at the Business Book Grand Prix 2024. To commemorate the award, starting Tuesday, February 13, 2024, a new edition of “Warm Technology: Future Stories” will be released at bookstores nationwide, with the content of “Warm Technology” unchanged.
We will also be running an SNS campaign where you can win a 3-month free trial monitor of “LOVOT” by lottery.
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“Readers’ Choice Business Book Grand Prix 2024” is sponsored by Globis Graduate School of Management and Flyer Co., Ltd., which operates the book summary service “flier”, with the aim of selecting and awarding “books that you should read now” that are useful for business. This is an award to be held.
This time, the 9th time, 123 business books were entered from among the books published in Japan between December 2022 and November 2023. From among them, readers will vote for the business book they have actually read and think was “useful” or “practical,” and the number of votes will determine the prize and grand prize in each category. Thanks to the support of many people, “Warm Technology” won the Innovation Category Award.
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To commemorate this award, a new edition with a new cover design and title, “Warm Technology: Future Stories”, while retaining the main text, will be released at bookstores nationwide from Tuesday, February 13th. Masu.
This book is not a book that explains technology or “LOVOT”. This is a business book that Hayashi has learned about humanity through the development of “LOVOT” and about a future where humans and AI will support each other and live in a warm era where there is no
conflict.It is a business book that provides an opportunity to deepen your thoughts about coexistence with AI in the future. . The content has not been changed in the hope that as many people as possible will pick it up and read it, as it is designed to be easy to read for anyone of any generation, even those who are not well-versed in technology. We have decided to roll out a new version.
In addition, the “Readers’ Choice Business Book Grand Prix 2024” fair will be held at approximately 1,500 bookstores nationwide from February 14th (Wednesday), so please take this opportunity to pick it up and take a look.
“LOVOT” SNS campaign where you can win a 3-month free trial monitor by lottery To commemorate the publication of the new edition, if you post on X or Instagram with the hashtag “#MiraiFutureStory” and your favorite passage, phrase, or impression from the book, you will receive a 3-month free trial of “LOVOT”. We will be holding a “New Edition “Warm Technology Future Story” SNS Campaign” where 2 people will win by lottery.
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New edition “Warm Technology Future Story” SNS campaign
■Implementation period:
February 13th (Tuesday) – March 31st (Sunday), 2024
■Bonus:
Two people will be selected by lottery to receive a 3-month free monitor of “LOVOT”
■How to apply:
During the period, please post on X or Instagram with the following 1.2. 1. Hashtag “#Future Future Story”
2. Favorite passage, phrase, or impression from the book
*Please be sure to include the hashtag when posting.
*Your favorite passage or phrase from the book can be an image of the main text of the book.
*Winners will be notified via DM on the SNS they posted.
Click here for details: https://lovot.life/blog/article/fclrx8w15h3/ Comment from author Kaname Hayashi
People often ask me, “Why did I, an engineer who developed race cars and mass-produced cars, create a robot that doesn’t do work for people or speak, but is meant to be loved?” Masu.
It was the result of an accumulation of experiences and realizations I’ve had in my life up until now.
I’ve tried to recreate reality with virtual simulations, I’ve competed for 1/1000th of a second in a race, I’ve cried tears of frustration after working overseas, I’ve been exposed to nature and walked over dead animals. All these experiences were necessary to create “LOVOT”. As a result of that path of thought, “LOVOT” was born.
One example of this is “warm technology.”
Will technology overwhelm humanity? Or does it make people happy? It’s our choice.
If everyone does not forget that they are in charge of the reins, the future will definitely move in a positive direction.
I hope that even those who are not interested in technology or “LOVOT” will pick it up and think about the coexistence between technology and humanity.I want this book to reach as many people as possible, so the content is unchanged. We will be publishing a new edition with a new binding.
Book overview
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Author: Hayashi Kaname
First edition release date: May 19, 2023
New edition release date: sequentially from February 13, 2024 Published by: Rightssha Co., Ltd.
Specifications: 46th edition/416P
ISBN: 978-4-909044-43-3
List price: 2,090 yen (tax included)
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4909044434/
table of contents
*The contents of the book have not changed from the first edition. Prologue: The reason why we admire “Mewe” and fear the “Giant God Soldier” Chapter 1: Birth of LOVOT
Chapter 2: What is love?
Chapter 3: What are emotions and life?
Chapter 4: How will robots change society in the era of 100-year lifespans? Chapter 5: After the Singularity, will AI become God?
Chapter 6: Why was Doraemon born in the 22nd century Sewashi-kun’s era? Chapter 7: How to make Doraemon
Final Chapter: Be Exploratory
Author profile
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GROOVE X Founder/CEO
Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1973.
Joined Toyota Motor Corporation in 1998.
After being involved in the aerodynamics development of the supercar “LFA” and F1, he was in charge of mass production vehicle development management at Toyota Motor Corporation’s Product Planning Department (Z).
In 2011, he participated in Masayoshi Son’s successor training program “SoftBank Academia” as the first external student, and joined SoftBank Corp. the following year.
Participated in the emotion recognition personal robot “Pepper” project. In 2015, founded GROOVE X Co., Ltd.
In 2018, we announced the family robot “LOVOT”. Shipping began the following year.
At CES, the world’s largest consumer electronics trade show held in Las Vegas, we won The VERGE’s “BEST ROBOT” in 2019 and the “Innovation Award” in 2020. 2021: “Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Award” at the 9th Robot Awards; 2022: 3rd IP BASE AWARD: “Startup Category Encouragement Award”; 2023: 1st WELLBEING AWARDS: “Goods and Services Category: GOLD Impact Award” Awarded. GROOVE X Co., Ltd. Company Profile
Company name: GROOVE X Co., Ltd.
Address: Sumitomo Fudosan Hamacho Building, 3-42-3 Nihonbashi Hamacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Establishment date: November 2, 2015
Representative: Kaname Hayashi, Representative Director and President Business content: “LOVOT” development project
URL: https://groove-x.com/
Overview of “LOVOT”
“LOVOT” comes closer and looks at you when you call its name. They get attached to their loved ones and ask for a hug. It feels slightly warm when I pick it up. Although it is a robot, it has a sense of life as if it were a living thing, and it is a robot that gradually becomes part of the family, like a pet. It took about four years to start shipping, and the technological prowess contained in the cutting-edge technology, which is hard to imagine from its adorable appearance, has been praised and has won numerous awards both domestically and internationally. It is one of the most popular forms of robotics and is highly regarded around the world. In recent years, it has attracted attention from the perspectives of mental care, emotional education, programming education, etc. during the coronavirus pandemic, and has been introduced at educational facilities such as nursery schools, kindergartens, elementary schools, nursing care facilities, and companies nationwide.
Official name: LOVOT
Price: 498,800 yen (tax included)
*Price includes administrative fees and shipping.
*Living expenses will be charged separately.
Official website: https://lovot.life/
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