Winners Built With Vertex AI

An app that lays the laws behind everyday scenes over the scenes themselves in AR. Pick a difficulty and a field, point a phone at a fountain or a bridge, and an AI reads the image and draws trajectories and force vectors on top of what the camera sees. If curiosity goes further, a link leads to a fuller written explanation.

An experimental system that clears intersections by market instead of traffic light. Each vehicle's AI agent negotiates for right of way, weighing urgency and its funds, and settles with a micropayment. Small instant payments run without handing over keys, sketching traffic as it might look once driving is autonomous.

An AI partner for finding things around the house. It watches the room at intervals, keeping a log of footage, so asked where the keys are it reports not just a place but a state, such as hidden under a magazine. If they are absent, it reasons from calendar entries to suggest candidates, and turns its camera with a servo.

Multi-agent financial analysis platform that evaluates trading hypotheses, built on ADK and Vertex AI.

A declarative travel planner that starts from a mood rather than a destination list, say wanting to kayak on a quiet lake, and builds an itinerary from it. It reads across popular spots, hour-by-hour crowd data and reviews, then orders stops to dodge the busy hours. Change your mind mid-chat and it recomputes on the spot.

A shopping app for when you cannot tell if furniture will fit your room. AI reads dimensions and existing pieces from photos and builds a 3D digital twin. Products drop into that twin for checking, and because the AI knows what is on screen and where things sit, you can ask for advice, or a search, without explaining.

A service that hands quotation work, long the preserve of veteran staff in woodworking shops, over to AI agents. The job is split into stages: read the PDF drawing, identify items and quantities, price the materials, produce the quote. At each stage a person checks, corrects and approves the AI's draft before it moves on.

An agent for foreign visitors caught in an earthquake or typhoon in Japan, unable to read the warnings or tell where to evacuate. Drawing on official meteorological and geospatial data plus preparedness guides, it delivers alerts, shelter directions and ready-to-send safety messages in the user's own language.

Upload one photo of the furniture you want to build and this web app works out the parts, generates a 3D model, lays out the cutting and assembly steps, and exports a plan as a PDF. It targets DIY beginners who cannot draw plans and hesitate over materials, so they can start work already holding instructions they trust.

A phone and tablet recipe app built around the annoyances of cooking: messy hands, jargon you keep looking up, paper recipes you cannot use. A wake word starts voice control that answers instantly from a local model, and questions about terms or substitutions are handled with RAG. Photograph a magazine page and it becomes data.

An agent aimed at the paperwork load on social workers. It fills a client's assessment items from an interview transcript, then searches a custom RAG index of support programmes in Yamagata Prefecture and lists fitting ones as tasks. A plain UI works where paper and digital coexist, returning time to face-to-face support.

A web service linking the owner of a lost pet with whoever spots it. One agent reads images, another predicts behaviour, and together they estimate from weather, time of day and terrain where the animal is likely to be, drawing it as a heat map. Finders' photos are auto-matched by similarity, and both sides can chat directly.

A system that surfaces road hazards before you drive them. It pulls Street View imagery every 50 metres along a chosen route and has AI analyse each point from several angles — blind corners, road surface, visibility — scoring risk on a ten-point scale. The result is a colour-coded map you can question spot by spot in chat.

An app for experiencing race day before it arrives. It cross-references the course GPX, the weather and the runner's goals and training history, then works out which points to watch, how to pace and where to drink. The advice comes back as a generated video with captions, helping runners picture the course and judge well.

As an organisation grows, teams lose sight of each other's work and editing the internal newsletter turns into a chore. Here AI agents read company chat and meeting notes on a schedule, then lay the week out as a newspaper page, editorials and staff profiles included, so internal news becomes something people read for fun.

Pregnancy brings changes day by day, and memory alone makes them hard to describe at a check-up. BLOOMS is an iOS and web app that takes over the record-keeping: generative AI responds to the notes and photos a user leaves, suggests keywords to look things up, and summarises a stretch of entries to bring to an appointment.

A web app for households where two working parents and the price of picture books squeeze out bedtime stories. Pick an age, a script, a length and a genre, and the AI writes a story, illustrates it and reads it aloud. At around a dozen yen per episode, a fresh book can match the child's stage and interests every time.