Our Initiatives Toward Robot-Friendly City and Architecture

As a first step in the "Otemachi, Marunouchi, and Yurakucho Smart City Vision," which was formulated in 2020, to create a walkable space where pedestrians, mobility devices, and robots coexist, a demonstration experiment was conducted in January 2022 on Marunouchi Nakadori Street to create a robot driving environment using a 3D digital map that combined indoor and outdoor areas.
A versatile 3D digital map was created using general-purpose outdoor 3D digital map data provided with the cooperation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and our own architectural BIM model data for the building. We then confirmed that the point cloud data in the virtual space was of a quality that would allow a robot to navigate by actually driving it from a store inside the building to an outdoor terrace seat. This demonstration experiment was conducted as part of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Smart City Model Project.