coming soon all times are JST

2024-10-15 Invited talk @IROS workshop
GV will give a talk untitled "Hold my hand and let’s go walking", at the IROS Workshop on Variable Impedance Learning and Control: Navigating Challenges, Exploring Opportunities, and Shaping the Future. @Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

2024-10-23～26 ICSR 2024 Conference presentations
A. Hayashi will present his work on "Expressive touch Gestures: Analysis of Raw Force for Haptic Communication with Robots"and X. Indurkhya will present her work on "The Imaginary Robot Teacher: The Value of Sci-Fi in the Field of Educational Robotics" at the 16th Int. Conf. on Social Robotics. @Odense, Denmark

2024-11-22 Invited talk @Humanoids workshop
GV will give a talk untitled "Control in Humans and Robots: Benefits and Boundaries ", at the Control in Humans and Robots: Benefits and Boundaries at the Humanoids workshop on Designing Humanoids: How Much Should We Learn from Humans?”. @Nancy, France

recent news

2024-9-30 New team members
We are happy to have a 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. V. 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

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.

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

Tokyo Forum 2023 Panel discussion

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.