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Business Jul 21, 2015

CEO of Japan's Toshiba resigns over doctored books

Toshiba's CEO and eight other executives resigned Tuesday to take responsibility for doctored books that inflated profits at the Japanese technology manufacturer by 152 billion yen ($1.2 billion) over several years.

General Physics Jul 7, 2015

Multilayer magnetic recording to realize high-density hard disk drives

Researchers at Toshiba have demonstrated a new technology in which microwave magnetic fields are used to reverse magnetization directions by selecting layers in a multilayer magnetic medium. The developed magnetization reversal ...

Robotics Jun 30, 2015

Toshiba's 'scorpion' robot will look into Fukushima reactor

A new robot that raises its tail like a scorpion is scheduled to look at melted nuclear fuel inside one of the three wrecked Fukushima reactors in Japan.

Robotics Jun 19, 2015

Realistic robot faces aren't enough – we need emotion to put us at ease with androids

When the first guests arrive at Nagasaki's Hotel Henn Na in July this year, they will be greeted and served by robots. In a similar approach, Toshiba's android Aiko recently held a short-term role greeting customers at a ...

Computer Sciences Jun 18, 2015

Verification testing of quantum cryptographic communication system that theoretically cannnot be tapped

Toshiba Corporation will start verification testing of the transmission of genome analysis data using quantum cryptography that is theoretically completely secure from tapping. Testing will start on August 31 and will be ...

Business Jun 12, 2015

Head of Japan stock exchanges 'ashamed ' over Toshiba woes

The longtime head of Japan's stock exchange says he is "ashamed" over a recent accounting scandal at electronics and industrial conglomerate Toshiba Corp.

Robotics Apr 20, 2015

Japan robot receptionist welcomes shoppers

She can smile, she can sing and this robot receptionist who started work in Tokyo on Monday never gets bored of welcoming customers to her upmarket shop.

Hardware Apr 7, 2015

A compact image sensor providing image quality on par with larger sensors

Toshiba has developed a super high quality image processing technology that achieves image quality comparable to that of larger image sensors. This new technology is able to apply a compact image sensor like the ones in smartphones ...

Energy & Green Tech Mar 27, 2015

Technology to look inside Fukushima reactors faces challenge

The cutting-edge technology was billed as a way to decipher where exactly the morass of nuclear fuel might sit at the bottom of reactors in the Japanese power plant that went into multiple meltdowns four years ago.

Mar 27, 2015

Cosmic-ray muon technology to be used to image debris inside Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors

Toshiba Corporation and the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning (IRID) today announced the development of a muon-based technology for imaging and mapping nuclear fuel debris inside the reactor pressure ...

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