2020/09/07
Company:CYBERDYNE Inc.

Name ofRepresentative:

Yoshiyuki Sankai,President and CEO

Code:

7779 (Mothers Section of the Tokyo
Stock Exchange)

Contact:

Shinji Uga, Director and CFO(Tel. +81-29-869-9981)

CYBERDYNE and X-ray color image sensor startup ANSeeN announces coordination~Reinforcing core technology that improving image analysis accuracy in the AI Era~CYBERDYNE Inc. [Tsukuba, Ibaraki, CEO: Yoshiyuki Sankai (the “Company”)] and ANSeeN Inc[Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, CEO: Akifumi Koike (“ANSeeN”), a venture that works on highly sensitive andhigh resolution X-ray image sensor, announced to form a capital tie-up (CYBERDYNE’s investment inANSeeN) and a business alliance. At the same time, Cybernics Excellence Japan Fund 1 Investment LimitedPartnership (CEJ Fund) operated by CYBERDYNE’s subsidiary CEJ Capital Inc. will also make an
investment to ANSeeN.

X ray color camera mounted with high resolution image sensor that could obtain color information of X ray

The Company prepared “C-Startup”, which is an ecosystem to promote innovation by providing technicaladvices, financial support and business support to startups with unique technologies. C-Startup was preparedto speed up formation of “Cybernics Industry” as a new industry to solve various social problems throughfusion of “Human” + “Cyber/Physical Space”. ANSeeN was awarded with a prize in “C-Startup Pitch” (heldon December 2019, as part of CYBERNICS EXPO 2019), which was held by the Company to gather
startups and entrepreneurs with ambitions to create new industry that would solve problems of humans andsociety. After the event, the two companies went through multiple discussions which led to the coordinationon this occasion.

Award ceremony at C-Startup Pitch: CEO Akifumi Koike stands on the left

ANSeeN is a startup that realized highly sensitive and high resolution X ray color imaging sensor byutilizing high-speed measurement technology that exploits the characteristics of photons. The sensor
developed spinoff venture of University of Shizuoka is 100 times more sensitive in comparison toconventional X ray sensor and it is capable of displaying the information in color imaging (wavelength).
While the image analysis with AI is being utilized for various applications, by using sensors developed byANSeeN, the quality of the data can be improved, thereby improving the accuracy of the analysis with AI.
Through the development of Cybernics devices and Cybernics Interfaces such as Wearable Cyborg HAL, theCompany works to accumulate, analyze and AI process IoH/IoT Big Data (e.g. information related to brainnerve system, vital system, physical system, behavioral system, living system and environmental system) ona Cybernics Platform. By coordinating with ANSeeN, accuracy of IoH/IoT Big Data is expected to improve.
The Company aims to promote the making more things “seen” to further develop “Cybernics Industry” that
contributes to solving problems of human and society.

Links
C-Startup
https://www.cyberdyne.jp/wp_uploads/2019/11/191106_PR_C-Startup_ENG.pdf
ANSeeN receives an price in C-Startup pitch 2019 (available in Japanese only)
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000002.000038353.html
CYBERDYNE Inc.
URL
https://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/
FoundedJune 2004
Share capital
26.778 billion Japanese yen (as of March 31, 2020 : non-consolidated, Japanese GAAP)
CEOPresident and CEO Yoshiyuki Sankai
Address
2-2-1 Gakuen-minami, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, JapanThe Group’s business is to realize “Society 5.0/5.1”, a future society based on the idea of TechnoPeer-Support where human and technology live together and support each other. This goal is attained
through revolutionary changes in industry and society, and The Group seeks to utilize “Cybernics
Technology” (fusion and combination of systems of human, robot and information) that handles“human” + Cyberspace” + “Physical space”, to create a “Cybernics Industry” for this transition
following the breakthroughs of the Robotics Industry and IT Industry.