NTT Urban Solutions, NTT Urban Development, NTT Communications and NTT are working together to reduce the need for human labor by utilizing robots in a new initiative.
The four companies are conducting demonstration experiments involving food delivery using autonomous robots linked to mobile ordering apps. Through this demonstration, they also aim to create new and valuable experiences for office workers and sales opportunities for restaurants.
Seamless coordination between robots and buildings is becoming commonplace. By collecting building facility information, route and store traffic information, and other data in the cloud, the robot autonomously searches for the optimal route without human instructions after receiving an order, all to pick up and deliver to the applicable floor.
NTT Urban Solutions already uses robots for security and cleaning at Urbannet Nagoya Nexta Building. In the future, it will continue to work toward further utilization of robots in buildings and districts in anticipation of a declining working population, such as delivery by robots within districts (including indoors and outdoors), integrated control (including robots with different purposes), and the multi-use of robots. We will continue to study and verify the surrounding issues.
NTT Group’s vision for urban development
NTT Group aims to create new value by integrating various robots into the lives of each person through the "MachiZukuri DTC® " utilizing the IOWN Concept3 technology.
The robots will not only fulfill the functions of delivery, security, and cleaning, but will also predict and anticipate each person's current condition to provide comfort, security, convenience, and excitement.
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1. “MachiZukuri DTC® ” is a technology that optimizes the entire city by linking various functions such as store management, food loss prevention, and personal service (hospitality) based on the concept of digital twin computing4. Please refer to the Related Press Releases section below to see other related initiatives.
2. The 4D Digital Platform® provides various sensing data collected in
real time of people, things, and events, including information on latitude, longitude, altitude, and time. It is a platform that enables data fusion and future prediction in cooperation with various industrial platforms by syncing and integrating with high accuracy. Using NTT’s IOWN concept as a foundation to support "Digital Twin Computing (DTC)", the technology of NTT Laboratories, and the know-how and assets of the NTT Group, we are proceeding with the commercialization of functions from fiscal 2021 and their expansion through
continuous research and development. For more information, please visit the site below.
3. The “IOWN concept” uses innovative technology to exceed the limits of conventional infrastructure, optimize the individual and entire systems based on various kinds of information, and create a prosperous society open to diversity. It is a network and information processing infrastructure including terminals that can provide high-speed, large-capacity communication and innovative technologies
centered on this concept.
