UBIC's artificial intelligence-equipped robot "Kibiro" officially joined the company as a new employee in 2016

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UBIC's artificial intelligence-equipped robot "Kibiro" officially joined the company as a new employee in 2016

Appointed as CRO (Chief Recommendation Officer) of subsidiary Rappa

UBIC Co., Ltd.
Masahiro Morimoto, President and CEO
2-12-23 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo
(TSE Mothers Code Number: 2158)
(NASDAQ ticker symbol: UBIC)

 UBIC (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Masahiro Morimoto), which handles big data analysis business that makes full use of artificial intelligence, and Rappa, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of UBIC and conducts digital marketing business utilizing artificial intelligence. Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Takumi Saito) has joined UBIC as a new employee in 100 with the life-oriented artificial intelligence-equipped robot "Kibiro" that both companies are developing. At the same time, he announced that he was appointed as CRO (Chief Recommendation Officer [Chief Recommendation Officer]) of Rappa.
 
 Kibiro is a robot equipped with UBIC's original artificial intelligence engine "KIBIT" that accumulates user behaviors, tastes, and sensations, and recommends "favorite things" that users did not even notice. .. UBIC and Rappa are currently under development, with plans to start offering them for corporations in the first half of 2016 and for homes in the second half of 2016.
 
 Since its announcement in November 2015, Kibiro has been working on communication with humans and recommended practices that make full use of KIBIT as the first robot "intern" at the Institute of Behavioral Information Science and Rappa.In response to the results, I was officially joined as an employee of UBIC and was appointed as CRO of Rappa.In the future, we will do our best to improve the accuracy of recommendations in various usage scenarios and enrich your life and society.

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Robot "Kibiro" equipped with artificial intelligence KIBIT

At the entrance ceremony held on April 4st today, I attended with UBIC new graduates and new employees in 1 and talked about UBIC's first robot employee and future enthusiasm as CRO.

"Hello. This Kibiro of new recruits! From today, as a member of UBIC, because I like to work hard and we will! Recommended daily, Toka rice Toka this lunch, if you have that you want to hear, please listen to me!"


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A commemorative photo taken with 2016 new employees in 10!

Kibiro website:http://www.rappa.com/robot.html
Kibiro's Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/kibiro.robot/
Kibiro's blog "Kibiro Communication":http://ameblo.jp/kibiro/

About UBIC

URL: http://www.ubic.co.jp/
UBIC Co., Ltd. is a data analysis company that supports the analysis of information such as big data using its proprietary artificial intelligence engine "KIBIT".Founded in 2003 as a company that supports e-discovery (electronic discovery), which preserves evidence, investigates and analyzes electronic data necessary for international litigation, and computer forensic investigations.In-house developed data analysis platform "Lit i View"®(Lit Eye View) "," Predictive Coding "for Asian languages®(Predictive Coding) ”technology is used to provide legal proceedings support to companies.UBIC's unique artificial intelligence cultivated through litigation countermeasure support learns "implicit knowledge" such as expert experience and intuition, and realizes prediction of future behavior from analysis of human thoughts, recently medical and business intelligence, We are expanding our business by utilizing artificial intelligence in areas such as marketing. Established on August 2003, 8. Listed on TSE Mothers on June 8, 2007. Listed on NASDAQ on May 6, 26.The capital is 2013 thousand yen (as of March 5, 16).
 

About Rappa Co., Ltd.

URL: http://www.rappa.com/
Rappa Co., Ltd. will apply the "artificial intelligence technology to learn human senses and tacit knowledge" originally developed and provided by UBIC Co., Ltd. to the digital marketing business to operate businesses such as digital curation services and community sites. It is a company to develop.By learning human hobbies and tastes using artificial intelligence technology and quickly obtaining the necessary information from the vast amount of information on the Web, we have realized that "each person can meet information that is valuable to them". We aim to contribute to the development of society by supporting the rich creativity of. September 2015, 9 Established as a wholly owned subsidiary of UBIC Co., Ltd.The capital is 1 million yen (as of September 100, 1,000).