Developer's Aside
Company Direction

We were established in July 1999, so this July will mark our 20th anniversary. We have been doing things very slowly, so the scale of our business is still small, but thanks to your support, we have been able to generate a reasonable amount of profit. I myself am over 50 years old, and this timing [...].

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randroid

The news that the developer went bankrupt... I thought it was too amazing to challenge a ridiculously difficult technology and release it for less than 2 million dollars, and at the same time, I thought, "If this sells, I will have to rethink my way of thinking. Laundry folding [...].

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Developer's Aside
Most Disgusting

Engineers working hard in the field not being rewarded Getting a job? To get work? To get funding? I feel that information is running out of control in relation to reality. Is the gap between information and reality being driven out of control?

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Developer's Aside
What are true needs?

We should not simply think of "what users want" = "needs. The true needs are those things that users can add value to by obtaining them. In today's labor-shortage environment, the "automation of visual inspection" is an unusually loud "I want to do it" [...].

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Developer's Aside
EVEN IF IT'S NOT AI.

I'VE BEEN ABLE TO SORT OUT ONLY GOOD PRODUCTS BY REGISTERING DOZENS OF GOOD PRODUCTS... FOR ABOUT 15 YEARS NOW. THE HARD PART IS THE ONES THAT HAVE A LARGE VARIATION OF GOOD PRODUCTS AND THE LINE BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD IS BLURRED. I UNDERSTAND AI THERE, BUT THE BASIS OF QUALITY IS TO ELIMINATE THE VARIATION OF GOOD PRODUCTS [...].

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Developer's Aside
Climb a mountain you can climb

When you look at newspapers, you will read about various technologies as if they have reached a practical level. Of course, I don't think that all of them are like that, but when an unrealizable technology is announced in the newspapers as "completed," the engineers in charge of the [...]...

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Developer's Aside
Significance of Automation

Automation" and "robotization" are all the rage. After many years of struggling to automate visual inspection, here is what I have come up with. Automation used to be about doing things that people couldn't do. Or, to do better what a person can do. That is the meaning of [...].

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Developer's Aside
I'll start writing again.

It has been 20 years since we started our company. We are still trying to figure out why automated visual inspection doesn't work. However, compared to the past, we have a clear idea of the direction in which we should be heading. On the other hand, as the labor shortage becomes an issue, those who are working on the automation of visual inspection are [...].

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Developer's Aside
After the 2017 International Robot Exhibition

The 2017 International Robot Exhibition has recently concluded successfully. IoT, AI, deep learning, self-driving technology, cooperative robots, etc. The latest technologies are often featured in the news. This may be the reason why there were so many visitors, both domestic and foreign [...].

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Developer's Aside
after a long time

Here comes the boss. The staff has been working hard and I was left in charge. My apologies. We will be exhibiting at the Image Sensing Expo in June for the first time in five years. And also a seminar. The major change in the past five years has been in the automation of visual inspection [...].

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