Toru Nishikawa, CEO, and Daisuke Okanohara, Executive Vice Present, gave keynote talks at Interop Tokyo 2015 held on Feb 9~10th in Tokyo. On the 10th, PFN announced parthenships with Panasonic and FANUC.

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Please refer to the news links below for more details on the partnerships announced.

NEWS
Partnership with Panasonic announcement
Partnership with FANUC announcement

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YouTube
A video demonstration of the technology can be viewed at the YouTube link below:
Robot control using Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning (7:13)
Preferred Research Blog
The technology used in the demo was developed by Eiichi Matsumoto. He explains it in more details at the Research blog below:
Preferred Research Blog (Japanese)

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PFN also announced the release of a new deep learning framework “Chainer” as Open Source Software. Seiya Tokui, the Chainer project leader, explains more details about the new framework at the research blog below:

Official site
Chainer.org
NEWS
Release Announcement of “Chainer” : Open Source Deep Learning Framework
Preferred Research Blog
Preferred Research Blog(Japanese)

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The announcement were covered in several Japanese and Global Medias:

Wall Street Journal　
http://www.pressreader.com/china/the-wall-street-journal-asia/20150610/281586649216941/TextView
http://www.wsj.com/articles/panasonic-in-deal-to-help-computers-learn-on-the-job-1433840398
http://blogs.wsj.com/cfo/2015/06/10/the-morning-ledger-startups-employ-novel-metrics-to-lure-investment/

The Nikkei Newspaper:(Japanese)
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLASDZ10HRX_Q5A610C1TJC000/
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLASDZ11HJK_R10C15A6TJC000/

The Nikkan Kogyo Newspaper:(Japanese)
http://www.nikkan.co.jp/news/nkx0120150611aaam.html

IT Pro(Japanese)
http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/15/061001951/?top_nhl