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Eliane Fiolet @ Ubergizmo · 12/29/2025 23:32 EDT

Hitachi at CEATEC 2025: How Metaverse AI Agents and Conversational Machines Are Augmenting Human Workers

At CEATEC 2025, Hitachi presented a connected vision for the future of industrial operations. Rather than showcasing isolated technologies, the company demonstrated how AI agents, metaverse-based digital twins, conversational machinery, and wearable sensing can work together to address a growing manufacturing challenge: maintaining efficiency, safety, and quality amid a shrinking and less experienced workforce. This challenge needs to be addressed particularly in Japan, where skilled technicians are retirin

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