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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

2025-4-25 GVLab Seminar
Prof. Wafa Johal from the University of Melbourne, Australia, will be visiting us and give a talk on "Co-Learning with Robots: Enhancing Human-Robot Communication through Interactive Interfaces". @16:00～16:45 Hybrid Eng. Blg 2 room 106-107 more details
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2025-4-30 GVLab Seminar
Prof. Yukiko Osawa from Keio University, Japan, will be visiting us and give a talk on "Thermal Communication Between Human and Robot". @14:00～15:00 Hybrid Eng. Blg 2 room 31A more details
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2025-5-11 Open lab
We will have an open lab session for all prospective students. Please come to visit us! @GVLab 15:00-17:00

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

2025-5-24～25 UTokyo festival
We will have activities, demos and games with robots at the Utokyo festival with our Interactive Robot Play Lab. Please come to visit us! @GVLab

2025-6-21～22 Conference presentation
Y. Wang will present her work on "KKT-Based Inverse Optimal Control with Unknown Inequality Constraints and Cost Weights via Convex Hull Approximation" at the 8th Jc-IFToMM International Symposium. @Nagano, Japan

2025-6-21～25 RSS demo
Our demo paper with AIST on "Demonstrating a Control Framework for Physical Human-Robot Interaction Toward Industrial Applications" will be presented at RSS 2025. Come and test our super cool pHRI controller. @Los Angeles, USA

 

recent news

2025-4-1 New students
Welcoming 4 new master students, 4 undergraduate students, 3 internship students and 2 visiting students this month. Check our people page.

2025-3-24 and 25 Graduation ceremony
Congratulations to our undergraduate students our master for successfully finishing their research with us!

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!

newly published

Solaris
V. Bontems, A. Carabédian, C. Collomb, C. Ecken, F. Ferro, F. Khelil, R. Lehoucq, D. Lestel, H. Osawa, M. Seto, G. Venture, J. Wacquez, Manifeste du Multiversalisme No 236, pp. 29-32. Read here

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.