Field technicians build 200+ agents, including a photo check of every wire
Google says Hitachi gave frontline power-and-utilities workers agent-building tools, and technicians built agents for 200+ use cases. One checks photos of every tool and wire before and after a job. Hitachi cites productivity up to 30%. Vendor-published.
- Agent or tool
- Hitachi HMAX agents (Gemini Enterprise)
- Topic
- Business & Startups
- Reported on
- Blog (Google Cloud)
- Added
- 2026-10-29
Why it matters
Small teams wear many hats. Agents that pick up research, admin and operations let a founder spend more time on the work only they can do. It is one of 24 sightings filed under Business & Startups on Agent Sightings (number 11 by interest), and one of 1 involving Hitachi HMAX agents (Gemini Enterprise).
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Hitachi HMAX agents (Gemini Enterprise) or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Check the before and after photos for this job: is every tool and wire accounted for, and does anything look wrong?
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Blog (Google Cloud): https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/welcome-to-gemini-at…. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.
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