Zippar is a revolutionary urban transportation system that combines elements of electric vehicles, ropeways, and monorails. By utilizing ropes for straight segments and rails for curved segments, our vehicles can navigate curved and branching paths that are difficult with conventional ropeways, enabling flexible route design. Construction is also significantly lower compared to traditional transportation systems, with installation costs amounting to one-tenth of railways and one-fifth of monorails. Based on electric cars, Zippar’s unmanned autonomous vehicles travel above roads, thereby eliminating traffic congestion and driver shortages and enabling clean and seamless urban mobility.

The safe operation of the nearly 100 million ships supporting our global society is currently facing a crisis. In addition to risks such as the loss of life or disruption of logistics due to marine accidents, the industry is also facing an existential crisis due to the shortage of experienced sailors and challenges in handing down navigation skills. We seek to address these issues through our autonomous navigation technology that leverages AI and robotics technology. This system interfaces with ships as if they were robots, allow for the safe performance of complex navigation tasks such as route planning, avoiding other vessels, and docking—tasks that have traditionally relied on experience and intuition. By reducing the workload of crew members and ensuring safety at sea, we aim to pioneer the future of the marine industry, spark a maritime transportation revolution, and help build the foundation for a safer, more risk-free future.

Did you know there’s a way to grow rice using super-bright LED lights? In just two months, rice can be grown and harvested from seeds, which means that you can grow six crops of rice in a single year! At Revo Energy, we use this rice to make feed for green algae, which is known to grow extremely quickly—in fact, it can multiply 90 times over in just six days, which makes it a world leader in productivity! That’s not all, though: it turns out that oil extracted from the algae’s body is also useful for making something called HVO, a new type of energy used to fuel vehicles like cars and buses. By reducing CO₂ emissions that pollute the air, we hope to help safeguard the future of our world with environmentally-friendly energy.

This research and development of polysaccharide hemicellulose has led to the development of bioplastic manufacturing technology that enables the production of a variety of products from sources such as cacao and coffee waste generated at food factories in Japan and farms in Central and South America, Africa, and Asia. By returning the profits from this initiative to the regions of origin, we help create new jobs and promote sustainable agriculture.

Did you know that the chemical structure of URUSHI, which has been used in Japan for more than 9,000 years, is actually phenolic resin, a type of plastic? URUSHI sap is extracted from the varnish tree, known as urushinoki in Japanese. ELEMUS was the first company in the world to successfully cultivate varnish trees artificially, enabling the development of a system that can produce plastic resin from trees instead of petroleum. While it takes approximately 200 million years to produce petroleum—the raw material for plastics—from scratch, URUSHI sap can be harvested in as little as 10 years, making it an environmentally-friendly material that is well suited to the current era. Our world-first 100% natural raw material molding technology, made from URUSHI resin and wood powder, is not only environmentally friendly but also exhibits exciting functionality through its antibacterial and antiviral properties.

Materials can be created from items that were intended to be discarded, buried, or burned. By utilizing the heat and exhaust generated during manufacturing processes, we can replace fossil fuels such as oil and gas for use in vegetable greenhouses.
*This project is being undertaken in collaboration with Suzuki Motor Corporation and Daido Life Insurance Company, leveraging their respective technologies and expertise.

"Photoproduction" is a world-leading technology that uses methane from sewage biogas, livestock manure, food waste, chlorine produced by seawater electrolysis, and oxygen taken from the air as raw materials to create pharmaceutical compounds and polymers using light. We hope to contribute to decarbonization and the SDGs through this unique technology.

Recent centuries have seen oil and fossil fuels become a cornerstone of our affluent and convenience-filled society. However, humanity now faces numerous critical global issues such as the eventual depletion of oil reserves and climate change caused by massive carbon dioxide emissions. Biomanufacturing, which is currently being explored worldwide, is a fermentation production technology that uses CO₂ from the atmosphere as a raw material to produce plant-derived glucose (carbon) through microbial fermentation. This technology is expected to help address issues of decarbonization and non-reliance on petroleum.

Our research focuses on using electricity to create essential substances from common materials like water and air. For example, if ammonia—a chemical compound widely used in plant fertilizers and in the production of chemical apparel fibers—could be produced anywhere using only clean electricity and raw materials, how would the world change? This ambitious goal can be achieved through our cutting-edge ammonia synthesis method. With this technology, we aim to create a world where electricity and chemistry are used to manufacture fertilizers and power cars and ships with CO₂-free energy. Join us as we introduce the potential of future manufacturing, and the creation of a more peaceful, more sustainable world.

Our duck-shaped wave power generator floats gently on the ocean, swaying with the waves to generate clean electricity. By harnessing the vast energy of the which covers about 70% of the Earth―the generator supports the transition to a carbon-neutral society. With its iconic, friendly design, our product invites people to rethink how we generate and use energy.

This innovation uses thin, film-like materials, known as Perovskite solar cells to generate electricity even in low-light indoor environments.
For this exhibition, we have created interior-use solar panels that take advantage of these characteristics.
The panels use the lighting to generate electricity, which powers the audio narration.
You can temporarily turn off the lighting using the button to experience firsthand how the panels generate power.

This technology recovers CO₂—a major contributor to global warming—from everyday spaces using a special absorbent material. This absorbent reacts with CO₂ and can be reused as a raw material to create products such as glass and concrete. These sorts of initiatives—recycling CO₂ as new resources—are often referred to as carbon recycling or the circular carbon economy, and are soon to become a part of our daily lives.

Capturing carbon dioxide in everyday spaces

This is the world’s smallest carbon dioxide absorption device capable of efficiently capturing CO₂ from everyday spaces. This innovative technology contributes to protecting the environment and helping to bring about a sustainable future.

Waste turning into energy!?BIOTECHWORKS-H2 transforms everyday organic waste into clean hydrogen energy. Our bold ideas and groundbreaking technology have made it possible: waste that was once discarded now powers cities and connects people to a more sustainable future. Our platform visualizes the entire process—showing hydrogen output, CO₂ reduction, and real-time impact. We’re not just managing waste—we’re giving it new value and redefining the global standard. With growing support from forward-thinking partners, we’re building a hydrogen-powered future where nothing is wasted, and everything holds potential. Because in every piece of waste, we see the energy to change the world.

Forests provide value in maintaining the global environment in different ways, such as by producing timber and absorbing CO₂. Accurately understanding this value is the first step toward forest conservation. Through a combination of drones and AI, this technology makes it possible to analyze the types and sizes of trees in a given forest and the amount of CO₂ that forest absorbs on a per-tree basis—a novel approach that is beginning to see global use as a software solution.