The haptics technology dealing with "tactile perception" has been recognized as a promising technology and as the third multimedia information following auditory perception and visual perception. Our lab has been developing "Tele-Hapto", a technology for multidirectionally transmitting tactile information present in remote location. We will demonstrate transmission of tactile information using Tele-Hapto.

We have been developing a fine manipulation system "Nano-Hapto", that returns haptic information to system operator, such as hardness and softness, which is produced in imperceptible manipulation made to a microsample viewed through a microscope. Visit our booth for demonstration of the Nano-Hapto system.

Taking advantages of the ultra high-speed plastic optical fiber and high definition and large display, we have been aimed at the creation of Face-to-Face communication industry which is full of presence, that had never been achieved by simply applying the conventional internet technology. The latest results of reserch including photonics polymer are introduced.

MIMO is recently attracting attention as a technology for wireless communication. It increases communication speed and improves communication property by using more than one antennas at the receiver and transmitter. However, using more than one antennas is a bottleneck in miniaturization of terminals. MIMO adopts fractional sampling to accomplish path diversity while preserving communication quality and achieving miniaturization of terminals at the same time.

We will demonstrate an RMT processor. This single chip is an aggregation of the following devices required to form a distributed realtime system: realtime processing function (RMT PU), realtime communication unit (Responsive Llink), computer peripherals (PCI, IEEE1394, etc.), and control peripherals (PWM, etc.).

More people today are transmitting information through wide use of internet. Our lab has been engaged in the study on easy and enjoyable information transmission. Come see our small robot and know about information display using robotics.

Our booth will introduce polymer parallel optical waveguide enabling board-level optical interconnection and carbon nanotube doped polymer optical waveguide device. This novel optical waveguide enables extremely high density parallel interconnection with terabit throughput, which is required inside of high-end servers.

A position estimation system using sensor network will be featured in our exhibition. This system is usable indoors where GPS is out of service and also in environments with obstructs without prior measurements.