日立、CES 2026で「調和社会」ビジョンをアピール

Hitachi recently announced a major presence for CES 2026, running January 6–9, where it plans to showcase a technology roadmap that enables the building of a “harmonized society.” The company will demonstrate exactly how advanced AI and integrated digital‑physical solutions can solve contemporary societal challenges, from energy to mobility, manufacturing to digital infrastructure.

What Hitachi Will Showcase: Six Themed Zones of Innovation

Hitachi intends to introduce a wide-ranging lineup through six themed demonstration zones at the company booth (No. 8529, North Hall, Las Vegas Convention Center). These come under major domains where technology is intersecting with real-world challenges.

1. HMAX – AI‑Powered Solution Suite

This centerpiece of the showcase will demonstrate Hitachi’s “physical AI” solutions under the brand name of “HMAX”. These solutions aspire to integrate digital data, AI analytics, and operational technology for the optimization of infrastructure-from power grids to manufacturing lines-enabling more autonomous, efficient, and resilient operations.

2. エネルギー

Hitachi will present technologies aimed at ensuring stable and eco-friendly power supply, from infrastructure monitoring to predictive maintenance and energy optimization for homes, businesses, and data centers alike. This goes hand in glove with the global pressure on decarbonization and building sustainable energy systems.

3. Mobility

Hitachi will show in the mobility zone how AI and electric solutions update transportation. They automate managing infrastructure. They improve the passenger experience. They also reduce energy use, carbon emissions, and maintenance costs.

4. Data, AI, and Digital

This zone presents cloud-based AI, digital engineering, and software-defined solutions-such as intelligent vehicles and data-driven platforms-that reflect a shift to one in which digital transformation underpins next-generation products and services.

5. Industry Automation Integration

The Manufacturing and Industrial Sectors will be targeted within this zone, displaying smart‑factory solutions, automation technologies, and intelligent building systems that offer a view toward the next generation of factories and infrastructure powered by AI, IoT, and automation.

6. R&D & Future Horizons

Here, visitors will see the experimental projects of Hitachi-from AI‑enhanced frontline work support and autonomous manufacturing innovations, to long‑term research into technologies that could shape the next two decades of industrial and social infrastructure.

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Along with the zones, Hitachi will also conduct short technical presentations and meetings to engage partners, clients, and stakeholders on its ambition to co-create solutions across diverse industry segments.

Why This Matters — Implications for Japan’s Tech Industry and Businesses

Integration of physical infrastructure, AI, and digital services.

At CES 2026, Hitachi’s exhibit signals a shift for Japanese firms and the tech sector. Future innovations will blend physical infrastructure, like energy and mobility, with AI and data services.

Manufacturing, utilities, transport, and construction companies must fully embrace digital tech, AI, and automation. This will speed up changes in traditional industries.

Boost to Green Tech, Energy & Infrastructure Modernization

Japanese goals of carbon neutrality and sustainable infrastructure might be further helped by the energy‑ and mobility‑related solutions being presented by Hitachi. Energy companies, power grid operators, data centre owners, and infrastructure developers alike might find new ways of modernising operations, reducing costs, and meeting environmental goals.

Smart Factories & Industry 4.0: New Demand for Automation & IoT

Manufacturers and industrial enterprises in Japan, including SMEs, could upgrade aging factories, automate their production lines, or apply smart‑factory concepts with integrated automation and AI solutions by Hitachi. This can improve productivity, quality control, and competitiveness, particularly in global supply‑chain contexts.

Similarly, service providers may include system integrators, IoT firms, AI developers, and maintenance providers who may want to design, deploy, and manage such intelligent systems.

Mobility & Urban Infrastructure: News on Transit, Transport, and Smart Cities

AI, predictive maintenance, and digital management tools can change transport. Mobility-focused solutions can improve public transit and change urban infrastructure. This will push Japan toward smarter, greener cities and transport systems.

Fostering R&D, Innovation, and Global Collaboration

Hitachi leverages R&D innovations from CES. This improves their teamwork, investment, and partnerships at local and global levels. This will spark startups, joint projects in academia and industry, and investments in AI, IoT, energy tech, and urban infrastructure.

For Japan, it is an opportunity to seal the country’s position not only as a manufacturer but also as an innovator and leader globally in integrating technology into societal infrastructure.

Strategic Significance: Towards a “Harmonized Society” in the AI Era

Hitachi’s approach-symbolized by a combination of IT, OT, physical infrastructure, and AI-embraces the broader shift of companies offering solutions, not products, through integrated, data-enabled systems that deliver services, sustainability, resilience, and long‑term value.

If widely adopted, such systems would transform how energy is supplied, how cities function, how factories operate, and how mobility works — with the potential to set a global template for sustainable, intelligent infrastructure.

For Japanese businesses and the tech industry alike, this is both a disruption and opportunity: the ones who adapt and build ecosystem capabilities may lead the next wave of industrial and societal transformation.

結論

The Hitachi presentation at CES 2026 is not a product showcase but a statement of intent. Presenting a vision for a “harmonized society” through AI‑powered energy, mobility, industry, and infrastructure, 日立 is signaling the direction in which technology will go globally and in Japan.

For the coming year, industry players, investors, and policy makers are likely to shape-both in Japan and beyond-how deeply AI and digital-physical integration become embedded in critical infrastructures and business operations.

As the world stands at the threshold of a new era – technology, sustainability, and societal well-being intertwined into one– Hitachi’s “What’s next?” may well mold what comes next.