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2025-3-16 Invited talk
Prof. E. Uchiyama will be a panelist in the event for junior high & high school students held by Metaverse school of engineering. She will talk about her career. Event in Japanese, pre-registration required. @UTokyo 14:00-16:30

2025-3-26 GVLab Seminar
Philosopher and ethicist Prof. Vanessa Nurock from Cote d'Azur University, France, will be visiting us and give a talk on "Care in the era of technologies and artificial intelligence". @15:00～16:00 Hybrid Eng. Blg 2 room 31A more details
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2025-4-9 Event
GV will be a commentator for Prof. D. Lestel's talk on "What is the Purpose of Machines that Serve no Purpose?" as part of Tokyo College public lectures. The event is in English, opened to all and online, with Japanese interpretation. Registration mandatory. @online 15:00-16:30

2025-4-18～20 Conference presentation
X. Indurkhya will present her work on "A Multi-Disciplinary Study Comparing Cultural Attitudes Toward Robots in India, Poland and Japan"at the Int. Conf. on Control, Automation and Robotics. @Kyoto, Japan

2025-5-19～23 Conference presentation
C. Tsuji, will present her RA-L paper on "Adaptive contact-rich manipulation through few-shot imitation learning with tactile feedback and pre-trained object representations" at ICRA 2025. @Atlanta, USA

 

recent news

2025-2-27 New team members
We are happy to host a high school student for a 2-week internship with us! Welcome!

2025-2-1 New team members
We are happy to have one visiting student from MIT and one intern from UT. Welcome!

2025-2-3 News interview
An interview of GV in the French magazine "Le Point" (in French), talking about expressive robot, non verbal communication and living with robots.

2025-1-15 New member
We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dominique Lestel, from ENS, France as a Tokyo College Professor for 6 months. Welcome back!.

2025-1-1 Best wishes for the new year!

2024-12-3 New member
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Jeff Lui as a visiting scholar for a year.

2024-10-21 Visiting professor
We are pleased to have Prof. Lorenzo Jamone from Queen Mary University London, UK, visiting us for 2 weeks. Welcome!

2024-9-30 New team members
We are happy to have one new master student, and two new visiting students for 6 months from Ecole Normale Superieure, France and Vienna University of Technology, Austria. Welcome!

2024-9-5 Award
GV was awarded the 第17回 功労賞 by the Robotics Society of Japan for initiating and actively participating in the creation and the activities of the working group to reduce gender gap.

2024-8-1 New team member
Prof. Vincent Hernandez is joining us as a Lecturer. Welcome!

2024-4-1 New students
Welcoming 3 new master students, 4 undergraduate students and 3 more internship students this month, as well as a new visiting professor. Check our people page.

2024-3-22 and 26 Graduation ceremony
Congratulations to our undergraduate students at UT and our master and PhD students at TUAT for successfully finishing their research with us!

newly published

Paris-Saclay Summit

Smart Health
K. Kamikokuryo, G. Venture, V. Hernandez, Latent Space Representation of Adversarial AutoEncoder for Human Activity Recognition: application to a low-cost commercial force plate and inertial measurement units, 100537, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smhl.2024.100537

Robotics and Automation Letters
C. Tsuji, E. Coronado, P. Osorio, G. Venture, Adaptive contact-rich manipulation through few-shot imitation learning with tactile feedback and pre-trained object representations, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 240-247, 2025. 10.1109/LRA.2024.3497713

Sensors
T. Rousseau, G. Venture and V. Hernandez, Latent Space Representation of Human Movement: Assessing the Effects of Fatigue, 24(23), 7775, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24237775 open access

Machines
G. Hanks, G. Venture, Y. Hu, Comparing Skill Transfer Between Full Demonstrations and Segmented Sub-Tasks for Neural Dynamic Motion Primitives, Machines, 12(12), 872, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines12120872 open access

In Orange Prof. Venture's schedule, in Yellow Prof. Uchiyama's schedule, in Green lab related events, in Blue TUAT related events, in Pink conference related important dates.