Mitsubishi Electric is back at CEATEC 2026 in Japan with new AI-driven demonstrations showing how artificial intelligence could better understand its surroundings and assist humans in everyday life. Last year, we experienced the company’s Emoco Analytics Service , which used contactless sensors and AI to analyze people’s physiological states and emotions, demonstrating how intelligent environments could adapt to their occupants. This year, Mitsubishi Electric is exploring another dimension of physical AI : giving machines the ability to hear and distinguish sounds in complex environments.

Task-Aware Unified Source Separation (TUSS) demo simulating noises during disater relief

TUSS Technology Gives Physical AI Better Hearing

On August 31, 2026, Mitsubishi Electric announced its Task-Aware Unified Source Separation (TUSS) technology , developed jointly with its research laboratories in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The innovation lets a single microphone and a single AI model isolate specific sounds in a noisy…