Keihin Dock to establish Yokosuka Constellations Center for marine unmanned vehicles
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NYK Line group company Keihin Dock signed a memorandum of cooperation with Oceanic Constellations and Sagami Transport Warehouse to establish the Yokosuka Constellations Center in Taura, Yokosuka. The planned facility will conduct research and development, construction and repair, and operational services for marine unmanned vehicles.
JFE Engineering will conduct Japan's first demonstration of separating and recovering CO2 from actual waste-incineration flue gas using metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The pilot will use the Clean Plaza Fujimi waste-treatment plant in Mitaka, Tokyo, and is scheduled to run through the end of FY2026, with recovery of several kilograms of CO2 per day.
INPEX will establish a new research and development center in the Kashiwanoha Campus area of Kashiwa, Chiba, to accelerate innovation in energy technologies. The center will include office and research space, an experimental building, and outdoor facilities, with construction planned to start in May 2027 and operations scheduled for April 2029.
ITOKI has renewed its 30-year-old mother factory and chair manufacturing site in Omihachiman, Shiga, reopening it in January 2026 as ITOKI DESIGN HOUSE SHIGA. The four-story, 2,568-sqm facility combines an external co-creation space, internal co-creation areas and a laboratory, employee workspaces, and a cafeteria, serving as a working showroom and development hub.
Dai Nippon Printing will open the FIO Lab at its Tsukuba Integrated Development Center in August 2026. The R&D facility will provide practical manufacturing-like environments for validating AI, robotics, equipment design, quality control and process-control technologies with corporate, university and research partners, supporting deployment across DNP manufacturing sites.
Renesas Electronics has opened a Physical AI and Robotics Lab in Beijing to support customer demonstrations, validation and co-development of next-generation robotics systems. The R&D facility will integrate hardware, software, AI models, control, power, sensing and system-level validation, serving as a hub from proof of concept through large-scale deployment.