Mitsubishi Electric's TUSS sound-separation AI wins CEATEC 2026 award

Mitsubishi Electric's task-general sound source separation technology (TUSS) won the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Award at CEATEC AWARD 2026, the company showed at its booth at CEATEC 2026. The booth ran under the theme "Building the Future of Industry with Physical AI."

TUSS separates and extracts a sound specified by a prompt from a mixed audio stream using a single AI model. It can process audio in real time on a local PC. In the demonstration, the system isolated and played back human voices from among helicopter, drone and siren sounds.

A second demonstration featured an arm robot performing screw-fastening, using a camera at its hand to align positions to 0.1mm accuracy. The arm recognised the screw holes and followed them to fasten screws even when the board moved.

Mitsubishi Electric also showed a robot for retail stores that places products of various shapes on shelves, in a partnership with CP Robotics. Mitsubishi Electric executive officer and deputy director at the AX Innovation Center of its Digital Innovation Business Headquarters, explained the company's approach to physical AI and its policy for deploying it in mission-critical areas.