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2024-12-17 GVLab Seminar
Triple talk for the December GVLab seminar with Prof. Tiffany Cheng, Cornell University, USA, Dr. Steve Heim, MIT, USA and Prof. Sabrina M. Neuman, Boston University, USA talking respectively on "4D-Printing for Bio-Inspired and Bio-Based Design", "Learning, Hierarchies, and Reduced Order Models", and "Designing Computing Systems for Robotics and Physically Embodied Deployments". @14:00~16:00 Hybrid Eng. Blg 2 room 231 more details
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2025-1-15 GVLab Seminar
Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine from MIT, USA will be visiting us and be our guest for the January GVLab seminar. @15:00~16:00 Hybrid Eng. Blg 2 room 31A more details coming soon
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2025-2-26 GVLab Seminar
Dr. Amel Achour-Benallegue from AIST, Japan will be visiting us and be our guest for the February GVLab seminar. @13:00~14:00 Hybrid Eng. Blg 2 room TBD more details
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recent news
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!
2024-2-26 Internship student
T. Rousseau from Reims University, France, is joining us for 6 months. Welcome!
2024-2-13 Internship student
C. Tsuji is joining for a research internship for a month. Welcome!
2024-1-30 Visiting professor & student
Prof. Dana Kulic and her PhD candidate Tin Tran from Monash University, Australia are visiting us for a week.
newly published
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
ELSI-RRI panel discussion (in Japanese)
Robotics and Automation Letters
S. Shimizu, K. Ayusawa, G. Venture, Fast Direct Optimal Control for Humanoids Based on Dynamics Representation in FPC Latent Space, 9(4): 3823-3830, 2024. 10.1109/LRA.2024.3371291
Electronics
X. Indurkhya, G. Venture, Lessons in Developing a Behavioral Coding Protocol to Analyze In-the-Wild Child-Robot Interaction Events and Experiments, 13(7), 1175. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics130711752024 open access
Trans. on Human-Robot Interaction
N. Abe, Y. Hu, M. Benallegue, N. Yamanobe, G. Venture, E. Yoshida, Human Understanding and Perception of Unanticipated Robot Action in the Context of Physical Interaction, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643458
Sensors
P. Osorio, R. Sagawa, N. Abe, and G. Venture, A Generative Model to Embed Human Expressivity into Robot Motions, 24, 569. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24020569 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.