[Headwaters Co., Ltd.] An interactive AI digital human using cutting-edge technology from NVIDIA and Siemens will be introduced at Japan Robot Week
2024” will be introduced at the Ryoyo Electro exhibition booth. *Headwaters Co., Ltd.*
Press release: September 10, 2024
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An interactive AI digital human using cutting-edge technology from NVIDIA and Siemens will be introduced at Japan Robot Week.
2024” will be introduced at the Ryoyo Electro exhibition booth. Headwaters Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Yosuke Shinoda, hereinafter referred to as “Headwaters”), which handles AI solution business, is
“NVIDIA” is an AI-powered application that generates rich facial animations from NVIDIA (Headquarters: California, U.S.) audio sources. Omniverse
Audio2Face” (*1) and the industrial rack PC “SIMATIC IPC” from Siemens AG (Headquarters: Munich, Germany, hereinafter “Siemens”).
We are working on the development of an interactive AI digital human using the “RW-545A” (*2).
This time, NVIDIA’s primary domestic distributor, Ryoyo Electro Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director, President and Executive Officer: Nakamura)
With the cooperation of Moritaka (hereinafter referred to as “Ryoyo Electro”), we will exhibit a prototype of an interactive AI digital human at “Japan Robot Week 2024”.
* ■About the interactive AI digital human prototype*
The prototype of the conversational AI digital human uses a local large-scale language model (LLM) to generate conversational audio data, and the NVIDIA Omniverse
“Audio2Face” automatically creates digital humans with expressive faces from conversational audio data.
Headwaters has been accumulating knowledge in voice interaction robotics, IoT, and human interaction UX that utilize robotics and AI over many years, and in recent years has also been providing solutions that utilize voice interaction and generative AI. .
As we promote these initiatives, we are strengthening research and development of digital humans, which are expected to open up new possibilities for the industrial use of conversational AI. This time, we will present our research results to date as “Japan
We will introduce it at Robot Week 2024.
* ■About the exhibition at Japan Robot Week 2024*
Name: Japan Robot Week 2024
Date: September 18th (Wednesday) to 20th (Friday), 2024
Venue: Tokyo Big Sight East Hall 6 Booth booth number: J-53
Visitor registration page:
https://biz.nikkan.co.jp/eve/s-robot/overview.html#outline_h2
* ■About the future*
In the future, Headwaters will aim to provide services that utilize conversational AI digital humans as soon as possible, and further expand the lineup of solutions that utilize generative AI.
Please note that the impact of this matter on our company’s business results for the current fiscal year is minimal. If any matters that require disclosure arise in the future, we will promptly notify you.
That’s all
*1: About NVIDIA Omniverse Audio2Face
https://build.nvidia.com/nvidia/audio2face
*2: About SIMATIC IPC RW-545A
SIMATIC IPC RW-545A has Core i9-12900E 16C (8P 8E)/24T, 2.3 in a 19-inch 4U rack-type chassis.
(5.0) GHz, 30MB Cache, can be equipped with NVIDIA RTX series GPU (NVIDIA Equipped with RTX-A6000), data logging, plant monitoring, image processing, simulation, AI model development/inference, RAG/Local It can be used for various purposes such as LLM server use.
Product page
https://www.siemens.com/jp/ja/products/automation/pc-based/simatic-rack-ipc.html
* ■About trademarks*
Proper nouns such as product names listed are trademarks or registered trademarks of each company.
* ■Company information*
Company name: Headwaters Co., Ltd.
Address: 4th floor, Shinjuku Island Tower, 6-5-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1304
Representative: Representative Director Yosuke Shinoda
Established: November 2005
URL: https://www.headwaters.co.jp
* ■Contact information for this matter*
Headwaters Co., Ltd.
Email: info@ml.headwaters.co.jp