2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo. Murata is demonstrating the "echorb Wonder Stone," a device that incorporates various in-house cutting-edge technologies, at the Osaka-Kansai Expo's Better Co-Being signature pavilion. This series of articles introduces the details of the 3DHaptics and other technologies used in the Wonder Stones, the ingenuity and struggles of the developers leading up to the Expo, and the message that Murata hopes to convey through its exhibition. ©Expo 2025
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What inspired Murata Manufacturing to sponsor the Osaka-Kansai Expo and provide the echorb Wonder Stones to the Better Co-Being Signature Pavilion? For this article, we interviewed the members of the Murata Expo Promotion Office to find out the reasons behind this decision.
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For approximately 40 years, Murata Manufacturing has been utilizing CAE software that was developed in-house to support its development and design efforts. This CAE software is called "Femtet" and is based on the finite element method, which supports eight fields of analysis including stress, electromagnetic waves, and fluids. Femtet has also been commercially available outside of Murata since 2008. This article discusses the development of Femtet and the motivation for making it commercially available, as well as the reasons why even by non-specialist engineers can use it effectively.
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Murata Manufacturing is demonstrating the echorb Wonder Stones at the Osaka-Kansai Expo's Better Co-Being signature pavilion. This article introduces the struggles and innovations behind their development as well as future prospects for Murata's heartbeat detection and position detection technologies that are paving the way to the society of the future.
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Murata Manufacturing is demonstrating the echorb Wonder Stones at the Osaka-Kansai Expo's Better Co-Being signature pavilion. This article introduces the challenges and ingenuity behind their development as well as the future prospects for the 3DHaptics technologies used in the echorb, which creates an illusion in users' brains that make them feel as if they are being pulled.
