Common topics here include assisting the elderly, industrial automation, disaster response, (minorly) entertainment, (minorly) consumer goods, and one other application area I studiously ignored because smart foreigners have no opinions about Article 9.

There were a couple of interesting discussions at the prefectural technology incubator about possible applications for research which was in the news at the time. It was a (very early prototype of a) man-portable cloaking device. Clearly, we decided, it was destined for the Tokyo fashion scene.