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The 12th Annual Research Presentation of the Japan MOT Society was held online on Saturday, March 13. Prof. Wakabayashi, Research Leader of our COI presented the outline of the COI concept and activity including the Research Center.

The 5th COI Symposium was held online. We have given keynote speeches and a panel discussion on the theme of "cool behavior", focusing on feedback, which is a cycle in the concept of "Empathizing with the Silent Voice". We would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who attended the symposium.

An article by Associate Professor Kono, who is studying terahertz sensors at our COI, was published in the Optical Society of America Optics and Photonics News as "A Flexible Approach to Terahertz Imaging".

At our COI, we held online session presentating each research theme carried by RA students.

The research content of Associate Professor Kono, who is researching terahertz sensors at our center, was published in the science newspaper entitled "Powerful tool for immediate diagnosis of robots and infrastructure equipment (non-destructive inspection sheet with high flexibility developed by Tokyo Institute of Technology and RIKEN)".

We were interviewed about the research of Associate Professor Kono, who is studying terahertz sensors at our center, and it was broadcast on TV Tokyo's program "World Business Satellite".

The research content of Associate Professor Kono, who is researching terahertz sensors at our center, was published in the Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun entitled "Terahertz Wave Compatible Cameras".

The 5th Tokyo Institute of Technology COI Symposium will be held online on March 5th.

In Ota Ward of Tokyo, which participates in our COI, the open innovation center called as "HANEDA x PiO" has been opened at Haneda Airport. "HANEDAxPiO" is a base for the purpose of interacting with various actors and people such as large and medium-sized companies in Japan and overseas, universities, research institutes, entrepreneurs, and start-ups. If you are interested in, please contact the office of Ota Ward, Tokyo.

New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) will hold a school and workshop on February 9th and 10th under the title of "Cross-cutting Technology Development Project for IoT Promotion". At this workshop, Prof. Wakabayashi, Research Leader of our COI, will give a lecture entitled "The Earth Inclusive Sensing Empathizing with Silent Voices" as an invited lecture.