NAGOYA — Masaki Umeda, co-founder of SORA Technology, participated in the UN's 2026 Science and Technology Forum as a featured innovator. He presented the company's AI-powered drone system, which identifies mosquito breeding sites.

SORA Technology launched in Nagoya, Japan, in 2020. The system uses drones to collect data from targeted areas. Umeda explained that artificial intelligence tools then analyze this data.

The AI identifies the location and characteristics of water bodies, including turbidity, temperature ranges, and nearby vegetation. "We fly drones in targeted areas and collect raw data," Umeda said. "Then the AI tools identify the location and characteristics of bodies of water such as turbidity (cloudiness due to the presence of particles like algae or micro-organisms), temperature ranges and nearby vegetation, all of which allow us to classify the risk of breeding sites."

The forum included discussions on scaling innovations and the role of the Global South in the AI future, though specific remarks from other speakers were not detailed in the primary presentation records.

No independent assessment of SORA Technology’s claims was available.