Artificial Intelligence & Olympic Games | “Future Sense” of Tokyo Olympics

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been halfway through. With athletes from all over the world competing for gold medals, new technologies such as artificial intelligence have quietly sneaked in, creating a full “future” for the Tokyo Olympics, which is a year late. Instant translator, 3D holographic projection, 3D athlete tracking technology, AI gymnastics referee and intelligent scoring system have improved the quality of competition and the experience of watching the competition for athletes and spectators from all over the world.

Japan’s robot market is world-leading, and the robot market for manufacturing is about 1 trillion yen (approximately 61 billion yuan). Japan’s robot culture is very strong. In animation works, witty and flexible robot images emerge one after another. Astro Boy, Doraemon, Little Treasure, Mobile Suit Gundam, Evangelion, these well-known cartoon characters are actually robots.

Even the mascot of the Tokyo Olympics was designed as a robot. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics mascot design proposal received a total of 2042 entries. In the end, the image of the Ichimatsu (square) robot created by Fukuoka illustrator Ryo…