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Overview

We are facing various crises such as climate change, infectious diseases, and population decline. Our laboratory promotes researches in the fusion of near fields of electronics, machinery, and informatics, and to develop green digital solutions for low-carbon society and sustainability in the fields of mobility, manufacturing, and infrastructure. The "Near Field Research" program has been launched as a driving force for the green digital transformation in the fields of mobility, manufacturing, infrastructure, etc. The researches will be conducted by integrating the electrical, electronic, mechanical, and information fields of our design engineering area, which have been near but far from each other. 　　The mission of "Kyoto Lab for a Greener Future" has been significantly changed at April 1st, 2025. The Lab has the main mission to promote the research on the Moonshot Goal 6, "Development of a scalable highly integrated quantum error correction system", for which Professor Kobayashi serves as project manager, and to promotes research into quantum computer control and error-correcting classical electronics (integrated circuits). A new "High-Performance Simulation Research Center (HPSRC)" has been established with Professor Yamakawa as the core of the simulation-related research in previous near field research.

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・	Professor Kazutoshi Kobayashi, director of this lab, has been re-elected as project manager for "Moonshot Research and Development Program" promoted by Japan Science and Technology Agency's (JST). (Press released at October 6th) For more details, please see the press release website on KIT news section.
・	A public lecture promoted by Kyoto Lab for a Greener Future will be held on campus. Date and Time: 16:10~17:10, October 24, 2025 Location: Lecture room 612 Lecturer: Professor Joseph Bardin (Google Quantum AI) Lecture title: "Building an error-corrected superconducting quantum computer: progress and outstanding challenges" Abstract: 　In this talk, I will review Google’s approach to quantum computing, highlighting recent progress and outstanding challenges in realizing a fault-tolerant quantum computer. The talk will begin with a discussion of Google’s quantum computing roadmap. Next I will describe the hardware stack, focusing on the quantum processor technology and the electronics required to run the quantum computer. I will then describe recent experimental progress, highlighting demonstrations of beyond-classical random circuit sampling and quantum error correction. The talk will conclude with a discussion of major electronics-related challenges associated with scaling superconducting quantum computers to the extent required for useful fault-tolerant quantum computing.
・	Kyoto Lab for a Greener Future has held Open Lectures on campus titled "State-of-the-art Integrated Circuits." 　Open lectures titled "State-of-the-art Integrated Circuits" by Senior Fellow Dr. K. Nii working at TSMC and Project Associate Professor C. Tanaka working at KIOXIA were held on Monday, June 16, 2025, for open lecture on campus and students of the Integrated Systems Course in the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering.
・	Kyoto Lab for a Greener Future has held Open Lecture　on 16:30-17:30, May 21, 2025 　Dr. Lynne Gignac, has been involved in evaluating and improving nanotechnology materials using electron microscopy at IBM's Watson Research Center for over 35 years. She had a lecture of her new transmission electron microscope (TEM) sample preparation technology. Professor Emeritus M. Shiojiri, KIT is introducing the speaker, Dr. Lynne Gignac.	Scene from the lecture
・	Dr. Taiki Uemura, Samsung Electronics had a lecture entitled "What is the Semiconductor Industry?" on September 6, 2024.
・	A few engineers from KIOXIA had a lecture entitled "Special Lecture on Integrated Circuit Engineering" on August 5, 2024. (Appearance of the lecture)
・	Kyoto Lab for Greener Future was introduced in KIT public relations magazine, KITnews, vol. 66 (July 2024).

History

Green-innovation Center of Kyoto Institute of Technology (KIT) was founded to develop the results of "highly efficient energy utilization" and participates in the "Kyoto Next Generation Energy System Creation Strategy" being promoted in the Kyoto region in 2015. The center was reorganized as Green-innovation Lab in 2018 as part of the efforts to strengthen research capabilities and industry-academia collaboration. Green Innovation Lab is a research center that integrates researchers, proposes new power control systems that integrates power electronics and advanced communication functions, and develops prototypes. It has become a center for promoting research and development in the field of green innovation in the university's functional enhancement projects. In 2022, with the aim of further strengthening our research capabilities, we established the Monozukuri Education and Research Center (MERC). In 2022, Kyoto Lab for a Greener Future was established by integrating the research fields of the Monozukuri Education and Research Center (now Monozukuri Unit of Open Facility Center) to further strengthen research capabilities. 　　As described in Overview, "Kyoto Lab for a Greener Future" has been reborn as the new "Kyoto Lab for a Greener Future." "Kyoto Lab for a Greener Future" focuses on quantum computers, with the main mission being to promote research on the Moonshot (MS) Goal 6, "Development of a scalable highly integrated quantum error correction system" from April 1, 2025 . 　　Please visit the below link sites for information on the anechoic chamber and clean room operated by the predecessor Green Innovation Lab. ・Use of anechoic chamber: Clik here ・Clean room sharing projec: Clik here ・Center for Open Access Facilities (COAF) : Clik here ・Center for the Possible Futures: Clik here

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Member

	Director: Kazutoshi Kobayashi
		Professor,	Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Graduate School of Science and Technology

Title in Kyoto Lab for a Greener Future Name Affiliation/Title Deputy Director  Nobukazu Takai Professor, Dept. of Electronics Steering committee Masashi Yamakawa Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Steering committee Michihiro Shintani Associate Professor, Dept. of Electronics Steering committee Hajime Takayama Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics Project Professor Hiroki Miyake  Kyoto Lab for a Greener Future Cross appointment with MIRISE Technologies Corporation  Project Associate Professor Chika Tanaka Kyoto Lab for a Greener Future Cross appointment with Kioxia Corporation  Senior Fellow Shigetaka Kumashiro Renesas Electronics Corporation Senior Fellow Koji Nii TSMC Design Technology Japan, Inc. Senior Fellow  Chikasuke Kodama Kioxia Corporation Staff Hisao Kanzaki  Moonshot Coordinator Staff Yoshihiro Hirota Program Coordinator, Kyoto Lab for a Greener Future Staff Shigeru Yamamoto LSI Design Specialist Staff Yumiko Shimakurta Moonshot Project Promotion Office Profession  Staff Miwa Teramoto Administrative Assistant

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