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Materials, Machine Learning, and Robotics"
Taro Hitosugi, Professor, Department of Chemistry
| Taro Hitosugi (ed.) "Materials, Machine Learning, and Robotics" |
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Tokyo Kagaku Doujin (2024) |
Do you use machine learning and robots in your daily life?
Yes, unknowingly we use machine learning a lot. We take for granted nowadays voice recognition and facial recognition in smartphones, virtual backgrounds in online meetings, and so on. Robots have also become an indispensable part of our lives, cleaning, serving food, providing security, self-driving, and so on. In this way, we are surrounded by machine learning and robots in our daily lives.
In fact, these technologies are now being used in the field of research as well, and are beginning to dramatically change the way research is conducted. By delegating some of the research activities to machine learning and robots, researchers will be able to be more creative. Autonomy, in which a computer examines the results of an experiment and decides what to do next and a robot proceeds with the experiment, has also been realized.
The most important thing is to integrate human intuition, experience, and wisdom with these new technologies to create a new style of research that makes use of data. I myself am aware that the way researchers use their brains is changing dramatically. This book describes specific implementation methods and techniques, focusing on material research fields (chemistry, materials, condensed matter physics, etc.).
In the midst of these changes, human resource development is also an urgent task. The Department of Chemistry started offering a course on "Information Chemistry" in the academic year 2024. I am very much looking forward to seeing what kind of results the students, who have learned the most advanced research styles, will produce in the future.
Why don't you pick up this book and think about how research should be conducted together?