Signing of Strategic Alliance Agreement with Mind Foundry, UK


2025.3.14
Eight-Japan Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd. ("EJEC") entered into a strategic alliance agreement with Mind Foundry Limited ("MF"), an AI development company established as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, UK.
To further advance the development and maintenance of social infrastructure facilities, we have formed a strategic partnership with Mind Foundry, a UK-based company dedicated to tackling global challenges through the development and deployment of responsible AI. This collaboration aims to drive the next level of product innovation.
Outline of Mind Foundry

Moving forward, EJEC plans to collaborate with joint development with MF on the joint development of robotics technologies (including drones) and the integration of AI into system development for social infrastructure, as well as agriculture, forestry, and fisheries sectors.
Both parties confirmed the direction and specific future activities to be taken in developing first project, which will apply MF's image matching AI technology to develop an in-house damage determination support system that will match and detect damaged areas from the latest inspection images and past inspection reports.
Remarks: EJEC developed technology and systems
*inMap®:
A system that centrally manages vast amounts of digitized infrastructure data and location information, allowing free access to this data on electronic maps and offering excellent searchability.
*360EDITOR:
This system creates a 3D space by combining spherical photographs, allowing users to easily check the site on their PC like using Street View, and also allows users to attach and view various files (damage photos, inspection reports, etc.).
*Eye-Con360®:
This system overlays 3D data of structures onto 360-degree spherical photographs, enabling rapid decision-making by sharing realistic images in the early planning stages, and supporting the rapid development of countermeasures for disaster recovery, etc.