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2026.4.21

Researching in NEC Laboratories America, where our Optical Fiber Sensing Technology was born

Researchers' Voice

2026.4.9

Creating Original Technology Using Vision-Language Models

Researchers' Voice

2026.4.8

Accelerating Social Implementation of LLMs

Researchers' Voice

2026.3.27

Pursuing original medical AI research based on knowledge of nursing and AI

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2026.3.25

A new hope for zero construction-site accidents, born from a fusion of construction machinery data and LLMs A collaborative innovation by Sumitomo Heavy Industries and NEC

Featured Technologies

2026.3.12

Ensuring Safety and Implementing Robot Control that Alleviates Human Anxiety With a World Model That Predicts Human Movement and Psychology

Featured Technologies

2026.2.24

Automatically Analyzing the Risks of Increasingly Sophisticated Dis/Miss Information with LLMs and Agentic AI Technology for the analysis of disinformation and misinformation

Featured Technologies

2026.2.24

Transitioning from University Assistant Professor to NEC

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2026.2.19

Aiming to play an active role on the frontier between informatics and life sciences

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2026.2.16

From manufacturing to solution development

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NEC Research and Development

Challenging Tomorrow, Surpassing Today Through Innovative Technology and Creative Thinking

Message from the head of R&D

Diversity as a Source of Innovation
Technology Vision

Creating Social Value from Societal Challenges Through Our Three-Axis Approach
Introduction to our research activities

NEC's Research and Development Initiatives Aimed at Creating Social Value

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Unraveling Cutting-Edge Technology
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Researcher

Researchers Tackling Societal Challenges Head-On,
Creating New Value and Innovative Technologies

Researchers' Voices

Aspirations of Researchers Working on the Frontlines of Social Solutions
World-Leading Researchers

Top Researchers Supporting NEC's Technology and Leading the International Academic Community
Researcher Profile

The Journey and Legacy of Our Researchers

NEC R&D bases spread
around the world

To Generate Research Outcomes Globally, We Have Established R&D Bases Spread Across North America, Europe, Singapore, China, and Israel, Promoting Research and Development That Leverages the Advantages of Each Location

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2026.9.30

Achievements

Yasunori Babazaki (Cyber-Physical Intelligence Research Laboratories), Ryuhei Ando (Biometrics Research Laboratories) and Toru Takahashi (Biometrics Research Laboratories) received The 74th Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award for " Development and Practical Application of Action Recognition AI for Digitalizing Industrial Work Tasks from Video”.

The Promotion Foundation for Electrical Science and Engineering

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2026.8.6

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Chihaya Matsuhira (Cyber-Physical Intelligence Research Laboratories), Yuichi Nakatani (Cyber-Physical Intelligence Research Laboratories) and Tetsuo Inoshita (Cyber-Physical Intelligence Research Laboratories) received The 29th Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2026) MIRU Audience Award for "Fine-Grained Human Action Difference Recognition by Measuring the Likelihood Contrast in Vision Language Models”.

MIRU2026

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2026.6.29

Achievements

Ryosuke Takayama (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories) and Masanao Natsumeda (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories) received JSAI Incentive Award FY2025 for "Deep learning of survival functions with hazard constraints for semi-supervised RUL prediction from time-series data”.

SIG-SMSHM

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