She joined the National Institute of Informatics in 2001.[4]
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Arai's Todai Robot Project aims to build a robot that can pass the entrance examinations for the University of Tokyo (commonly known as Todai) by 2021.[3][5]
Arai became director of the project in 2011.[2]
At a 2017 TED Talk, she reported that her system could achieve a score better than 80% of the applicants to the university; however, this was still not a passing score.
Arai sees the success of the project as evidence that human education should concentrate more on problem solving and creativity, and less on rote learning.[6]
Arai is also the founder of Researchmap, "the largest social network for researchers in Japan".[7] She was one of 15 top artificial intelligence researchers invited by French president Emmanuel Macron to join him in March 2018 for the announcement of a major new French initiative for artificial intelligence research.[8]