The channel features new and previously unreleased videos covering a wide array of research by RIKEN centers and institutes.
A visit to the RIKEN Channel presents viewers with a diverse set of perspectives on RIKEN’s past, present and future. One video presents an overview of RIKEN’s history, its organization and its objectives, stretching from its foundation in 1917 to its modern-day form. Other videos introduce specific projects at RIKEN: one takes the viewer on a tour of the new X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility at the SPring-8 Center in Harima, another introduces a robot (RIBA) developed to assist personnel and patients at care facilities, and still another introduces the fundamentals of biology through Japanese robot anime.
Through the sharing of this multimedia content, the new YouTube channel enables RIKEN and its researchers to interact with its Internet audiences in a way never before possible. It is hoped that this new form of interaction, by removing barriers to access, will contribute to further enhancing the dissemination of information and knowledge about RIKEN researchers and their important findings.
