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Sowing institutional knowledge across the industrial metaverse
As experienced workers across social infrastructure industries – from bridges to utilities – leave the workforce in droves over the next 25 years, some are turning to innovative technology blends to offset the gap. Hitachi Research, for example is busy combining XR (eXtended Reality) and AI for an innovation solution that is uniquely suited to help guide workers at industrial sites. The group has successfully brought agentic AI to Hitachi’s Worksite-Augmenting Metaverse. The agent, dubbed, Naivy, is aimed at both improving efficiency and reducing the “psychological burden” on inexperienced workers in frontline operations. Indeed, by layering AI on top of the metaverse, the solution can be used to identify and alert teams to hazardous actions in real time, accelerate quality inspections, and optimize workflows by automating repetitive tasks.