The Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC) is part of Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Its official site presents research teams spanning language information, machine learning, human-AI collaboration, social intelligence, omics, digital humans, media processing, computer vision, agent AI, daily-activity modeling, and embodied intelligence. The center connects research with real-world use through collaboration among academia, industry, and government. Its pages cover applications such as infrastructure and medical diagnosis, healthcare, life sciences, urban services, and robotics, as well as AI-safety work, LLM-based business-idea evaluation, projects, research results, seminars, and news.