We are humbled and proud to announce that “RePLAMO,” which we designed and launched in collaboration with Specified Nonprofit Corporation, Green Bird, won the “Social Products Award 2023.” Furthermore, out of 70 products/services awarded, our product was selected as a “Special Jury Award.”
Social Products Award 2023: https://www.apsp.or.jp/product/spa2023_003/
We are humbled and honored to be awarded "SINGAPORE GOOD DESIGN 2022” for the last-mile autonomous delivery robot “Camello." Big thank you and congratulations to the team for making the vision a reality!
SINGAPORE GOOD DESIGN 2022 – Special Category: https://sgmark.org/winners/singapore-first-last-mile-delivery-outdoor-robot-camello/
Final Aim, Inc. which Yasuhide Yokoi serves as a Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer has been accepted into Berkeley SkyDeck, one of the world-renowned Silicon Valley startup accelerators.
Final Aim news: https://final-aim.com/accepted-into-berkeley-skydeck
Final Aim, Inc. which Yasuhide Yokoi serves as a Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer, and Sony Design Consulting Inc. today announced that they had started proof-of-concept for Sony’s contactless IC card-type hardware wallet in the Web3 field.
Final Aim news: https://final-aim.com/sony-design-consulting-ic-card-hardware-wallet
The magazine’s feature, “A New Era of Industrial Design,” covered the story of Panasonic and Final Aim’s collaboration from community concept to potential ideas and planning that would accelerate the diversification of relationships between brands, people, and surroundings. This plan includes studying future visions of e-commerce like the metaverse with a function that allows the Utility Token linked data user to 3D print to update or customize Panasonic’s products. The combination of 3D printing and blockchain technology permits the exclusivity and authenticity of design, further providing incentives to user-posted 3D data. The team is also working on implementing an autonomous distributed community in the future.
Design Magazine AXIS was first published in 1981, and its contents have been distinguished from general magazines with unique and high-quality content. Since its first publication, the magazines have been highly favored by designers worldwide involved in business, service, and product development, as well as highly influential figures and opinion leaders.
Digital Engineering 24/7, an online magazine that provides design engineering specialists with the latest technology news, products, and services, featured our project, “TACHI.”
Pleased to unveil an art piece, “TACHI” that combines the latest technologies of AI-powered generative design and Web3 with traditional Japanese katana swords craftsmanship with more than 400 years of history. The product is from a collaboration project between Studio Shikumi Inc.Yasuhide Yokoi has been invited to introduce its latest case studies on its Web3 platform and the technologies where clients, designers, and manufacturers can build trust, connect and collaborate with complete ownership and vital authenticity.
Autodesk Accelerate is an exclusive event for design and manufacturing leaders with featured keynotes, panel discussions, industry networking, and analyst presentations by business experts. Participants can gain industry insights during the event and discover better ways to collaborate, automate, and make smarter decisions faster. Key speakers are invited worldwide, including Steelcase, Airbus, and Seymourpowell.
Yasuhide Yokoi has been invited to introduce its latest case studies on its Web3 platform and the technologies where clients, designers, and manufacturers can build trust, connect and collaborate with complete ownership and vital authenticity.
Final Aim news: https://final-aim.com/autodesk-accelerate-2022
Final Aim, Inc. which Yasuhide Yokoi serves as a Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer has established a corporation in the United States to expand its business.
Final Aim news: https://final-aim.com/corporation-united-states
Collaborated with Autodesk, Inc., a global leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, at “Formnext 2021” – the world’s largest exhibition for additive manufacturing in Frankfurt, Germany.
At the Autodesk booth, visitors were be able to see the innovative process of the initial design and prototyping phase in one of our latest projects – an autonomous delivery robot in Singapore.
Final Aim news: https://final-aim.com/formnext-with-autodesk
Featured in the 40th Anniversary Special Issue of the Design Magazine AXIS.
Design Magazine AXIS was first published in 1981, and its contents have been distinguished from general magazines with unique and high-quality content. Since its first publication, the magazines have been highly favored by designers worldwide involved in business, service, and product development, as well as highly influential figures and opinion leaders.
In the 40th Anniversary Special Issue, Yasuhide Yokoi was featured to give out perspectives for designers of the future.
Design Magazine AXIS:
https://www.axisinc.co.jp/english/service/society#design-magazine
40th Anniversary Special Issue:
https://amzn.to/3Duu12T
Has been appointed as a mentor at a startup acceleration program by Kumamoto City – “HIGO CANVAS.”
Program Website URL
https://higo-canvas.com/
“HIGO CANVAS” is an acceleration program by Kumamoto City, that aims to discover, mentor, and promote future entrepreneurs that would create new industries.
The program also focuses on community development that supports entrepreneurship and new business creation.
By putting emphasis on entrepreneurs and startup companies as a community, and bringing in supporters and mentors from both in and outside Kumamoto City, the activity ultimately aims to build an environment where new industries continuously evolve.
The acceleration program will organize supports and events that align with the City’s cultural context, such as “Creative” and “Leading-edge Technology.”
Inspired by the ambition of Kumamoto City and the accelerator program “HIGO CANVAS,” we joined forces to provide our knowledge and know-how in startup development. With our support and mentor, we will push forward the entrepreneurship, innovation, and industry creation from Kumamoto City local to global.
In collaboration with Specified Nonprofit Corporation, Green Bird (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Keisuke Fukuda), an organization that has been organizing cleanup activities all over Japan and worldwide, we are revealing a new project “RePLAMO” and its first design: a brand new model kit made from collected plastic waste.
“RePLAMO” Website URL
https://replamo.jp
Final Aim, Inc. (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, CEO Masafumi Asakura, and CDO Yasuhide Yokoi) and Sony Design Consulting Inc., today announced the launch of “hdw4 (How Design Works For)” to publish and promote joint research for creative and design support for startups.
“hdw4” Website URL
https://www.hdw4.com
The design development story of Singapore’s first autonomous delivery robot “Camello“, that applies 3D printing technology in the process has been presented in a customer success story of Ultimaker BV, a global leader in the professional 3D printing industry.
[Ultimaker News Release]
https://press.ultimaker.com/last-mile-autonomous.../
[Customer Success Story]
https://ultimaker.com/learn/yasuhide-yokoi-and-final-aim-inc
Proud to announce that our design supporting startup OTSAW has officially launched Singapore’s first-ever autonomous last-mile delivery robot in use, “Camello.” In collaboration with large industrial businesses such as NTUC FairPrice and DHL, the robot will be in service in Singapore to provide on-demand parcel and grocery delivery. On 11th February 2021, grand launch event was held, in grace by Pasir Ris – Punggol GRC MP Yeo Wan Ling and Dr Janil Puthucheary, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information, Ministry of Health Government Whip, and vice-chairman of Pasir Ris-Punggol Town.
The making-of design can be read from here: https://final-aim.com/making-of-design-with-otsaw
The partnership between Sony Design Consulting Inc. and Final Aim, Inc. has been covered by Nikkei BP, the flagship publication of economical and financial media.
Article URL (Jp): https://xtech.nikkei.com/atcl/nxt/column/18/01537/00001/
Final Aim, Inc. and Sony Design Consulting Inc. announced they are partnering to conduct joint research on creative and design support for startups.
https://final-aim.com/joint-research-sony-design-consulting
Final Aim has collaborated with the top leading tech startups in autonomous driving, Tier IV, Inc. by design to support the realization of driverless taxi service.
As a first guest, the program invited Yasuhide Yokoi to share Final Aim’s strong insight on open innovation projects such as startup acceleration. He shared unique know-how by story of actual projects, for example autonomous mobility development with a Japanese startup, COVID-19 robotics development with a Singaporean startup, and new business development with an Indonesian enterprise.
The article in Japanese can be read from here:
https://www.hakuhodo.co.jp/magazine/85794/
