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Auto shape generation and optimization tool – RICOS Generative CAE – has won the CES Innovation Awards® 2025
RICOS, AI base startup in Tokyo, led by CEO Yu Ihara and specializing in enhancing product design efficiency and value through AI and simulation technologies, has developed “RICOS Generative CAE.” This marks RICOS’s first-ever achievement in receiving the Innovation Awards® 2025. (Find the award-winning product here.)
About the CES Innovation Awards®:
The CES Innovation Awards® program is an annual competition that honors outstanding design and technology in consumer technology products. This program recognizes products that have excelled in various categories of consumer technology. The evaluation criteria include technology and functionality, design, uniqueness, and innovation.
About RICOS Generative CAE:
Features:
Automatically proposes modification plans for product shapes within “mass-producible limits.”
Automatically evaluates the performance of proposed shape modifications.
Identifies the most optimal (high-performance) shape.
Background of RICOS Generative CAE Development:
In industries such as automotive, aerospace, machinery, and heavy industries, the use of CAE tools in design and simulation is widespread. However, due to the varying skill levels of users and issues like simulation computation time, full utilization is not always achieved. This results in insufficient design iterations and performance verifications before manufacturing, thus not fully realizing product potential
Functions and Benefits of RICOS Generative CAE:
In addressing these issues, RICOS is advancing a system (Generative CAE) that automatically alters designs and conducts numerous (over hundreds of thousands) performance verification loops to explore and propose superior shapes. This system includes “mass producibility” as a factor, ensuring that proposed designs withstand mass production while optimizing performance.
Key functions include 3D shape generation, product performance evaluation over 100 times faster than traditional simulations, and an intuitive browser-based interface. These features significantly enhance design efficiency, improve product performance, and greatly reduce costs (such as labor, hardware, and software expenses), thereby contributing to the sophistication of the design and manufacturing process
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Company Information:
RICOS Co. Ltd.
Location: 2-3-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Representative: Yu Ihara
Company Website: https://www.ricos.co.jp/
Careers Page: https://www.ricos.co.jp/recruit/
（※）The CES Innovation Awards are based upon descriptive materials submitted to the judges. CTA did not verify the accuracy of any submission or of any claims made and did not test the item to which the award was given.
