Introduction to the Super Smart Society

Haven’t heard of the word “Super Smart” or “Super Smart Society”† before?

Imagine a world where unmanned tractors plow vast fields, automated buses and trucks transport people and goods, and avatar robots provide nursing care. This is the picture of the “Super Smart Society, perhaps better known as “Society 5.0.”　

Tokyo Tech Academy for Super Smart Society, launched in 2020, aims to offer interdisciplinary research research and a new type of education. In this course, you will learn about some of the undergoing research at Tokyo Institute of Technology in view of the “Super Smart Society”.

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Course Open: September 1, 2023 - March 31, 2025

Enrollment: Course Start Date - 3 Weeks before the Course Close Date

期間 / DURATION: 5 weeks

学習時間 / TIME COMMITMENT: 2-3 hours per week

費用 / FEE: Free

学習ペース / LEARNING PACE: Self-paced

分野 / SUBJECT: Engineering

言語 / LANGUAGE: Japanese

難易度 / DIFFICULTY: Introductory

前提知識・技能 / PREREQUISITES: None required

修了認定 / CERTIFICATION: Not available

Course Description

In this interview-style course, you will learn about five of the Research & Education Fields at Tokyo Tech Academy for Super Smart Society:

Smart robotics (Robot Zoo Sky)
Smart mobility
Smart robotics (Robot Zoo Aqua)
Quantum computing
Smart robotics (Robot Zoo Land)

This course is available only in Japanese. You will need to have an edX account to enroll in this course. Please create an edX account if you do not already have one. https://www.edx.org/

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This course is produced and offered by Tokyo Tech Academy for Super Smart Society.

†Super Smart Society: a society where the various needs of society are finely differentiated and met by providing the necessary products and services in the required amounts to the people who need them when they need them, and in which all the people can receive high-quality services and live a comfortable, vigorous life that makes allowances for their various differences such as age, sex, region, or language. (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, 2016)

What You Will Learn

Researchers of Research & Education Fields at Tokyo Tech Academy for Super Smart Society discuss issues and introduce their research towards the “Super Smart Society.”

Networked robotics
Automated driving and mobility services

Underwater robots and smart physical activity
Quantum computing (silicon qubits)
Ground robots and robots that collaborate with humans (food handling robots and soft robots)

Course Syllabus

Week 1: Smart Robotics (Robot Zoo Sky)

Networked Robotics
Distributed Cooperative Environmental Monitoring and Control
Cooperative Control of Human-Robotic Network

Week 2: Smart Mobility

Realization of a super-smart society through communication + automated driving
Millimeter wave transmission for cooperative cognition
Next-generation transportation infrastructure utilizing V2X

Week 3: Smart Robotics (Robot Zoo Aqua)

Smart Physical Activity
Computer Simulation of Swimming
Humanoid swimming robot

Week 4: Quantum Computing

Computation using the principles of quantum mechanics
Silicon-based qubits
Technologies Supporting Quantum Technology

Week 5: Smart Robotics (Robot Zoo Land)

Robots in the Super Smart Society
Food handling robots
Soft Robots

講師 / Instructor