Preferred Networks unveils a personal robot system at CEATEC Japan 2018, exhibiting fully-autonomous tidying-up robots

Preferred Networks hired Professor Takeo Igarashi of The University of Tokyo as a Technical Advisor

Preferred Networks releases deep learning-based, high-precision, visual inspection software

Preferred Networks wins second place in the Google AI Open Images – Object Detection Track, competed with 454 teams

Preferred Networks will exhibit at CEATEC JAPAN 2018 with CEO Toru Nishikawa scheduled to make a keynote speech titled “Robots for Everyone”

Preferred Networks raises a total of about 900 million yen in capital from Chugai Pharmaceutical and Tokyo Electron

Office expansion

Preferred Networks received the Best Paper Award on Human-Robot Interaction in ICRA 2018.

Chainer awarded the Open Source Data Science Project Award Winner at ODSC East 2018

Preferred Networks Executive Appointments

Preferred Networks released open source deep learning framework Chainer v4 and general-purpose array calculation library CuPy v4.

FANUC’s new AI functions utilizing machine learning and deep learning