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2025-10-6～10 Invited talk
GV will give a talk on "Reflections on our experiences with robots in the wild" at the 10th Workshop on Self-Organization in (Nano and Electromechanical) Robots. Towards the Robosphere, Artificial Life. @Kyoto, Japan
2025-10-6～8 Connected Minds 2025
J. Lee will present the work she did with us on "Walk with me - Emotional and Physiological Impact of Robot Companions" at Connected Minds Conference 2025. @Toronto, Canada
2025-10-15 GVLab Seminar
Prof. Luisa Damiano from IULM University, Italy will give a seminar on "The Olfactory Turn in Social Robotics. Futuring of Human–Robot Sociality with ScentDia". 15:00-16:00 Hybrid Eng. Blg 2 TBD more details
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2025-10-19～25 IROS 2025
K. Mori will present his work on "Safe Data Acquisition for Inertial Parameter Identification by Expanding the Motion Space"at IROS 2025.
E. Uchiyama will present her work on "Modeling Visual/Tactile Sensory Information Processing Based on Free Energy Principle" at the IROS 2025 Workshop on "Enhancing Human Engagement in Social Assistive Robotics: Exploring Interaction, Cognitive Load, and Adaptive Support".
K. Mori will present new work on "Toward Robotic Transvaginal Clinical Tests: Requirement Analysis and Understanding Gynecologists’ Procedures" at IROS Workshop on Design and Development of Rehabilitation Robotic Devices: Healthcare Challenges. @Hangzhou, China
2025-11-6 French Japanese Business Summit 2025
G. Venture joina round table on "Draw me a robot" at the French Japanese Business Summit. @Tokyo, Japan
2025-11-7～16 Distinguished Scholar
GV is invited as a Distinguished Scholar at Monash University to work with Prof. D. Kulic. @Melbourne, Australia
2025-11-13～19 HAI 2025
G. Shimada will present his work on "Tool or Partner? A high-accuracy classification method of how people treat robots in Human-Robot Collaboration" and Z. Yu will present his work on "Enhancing Robot Expressiveness with Augmented Reality Avatar", Int. Conf. on Human-Agent Interaction at the International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction 2025. @Yokohama, Japan
2025-18-21～19 IFAC HMS 2025
Prof. E. Uchiyama will present her work on "Modeling Sensory/Perception Changes Hypothesis in Altzheimer's Dementia Patient" at the 16th IFAC Symp. on Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems. @Beijing, China
recent news
2025-9-30 New students
Welcoming 3 new PhD students, 4 new master students, 1 visiting PhD student and 2 internship students. Check our updated people page.
2025-9-19 Graduation ceremony
Congratulations to our master and PhD students for successfully finishing their research with us!
2025-8-18 New member
Welcoming Prof. Yue Hu from Waterloo University for 6 weeks.
2025-6-19 New members
Welcoming 1 JSPS Summer Program student, 3 ESEP exchange students, and 1 internship student. Check our people page.
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!
published this year
Trans. on Human-Robot Interaction
R. Love. P. Cohen, G. Venture, D. Kulic, Adapting a Teachable Robot’s Dialog Responses using Reinforcement Learning: Cross-Cultural User Study Exploring Effect on Engagement, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 1-34, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1145/374369
IEEE Trans. on Computational Social Systems
E. Uchiyama, W. Takano, Y. Nakamura, T. Tanaka, K. Iijima, G. Venture, V. Hernandez, K. Kamikokuryo, K. Yabu, T. Miura, K. Nakazawa, B.-K. Son, Coordinate System Transformation Method for Comparing Different Types of Data in Different Dataset Using Singular Value Decomposition, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSS.2025.3561078
Int. J. of Automation Technology
A. Galiza Cerdeira Gonzalez, G. Venture, I. Mizuuchi, B. Indurkhya, VGG-16-based Map-less Navigation Architecture with Temporal Vision Mosaic for Autonomous Ground Robots, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 651-665, 2025. https://doi.org/10.20965/ijat.2025.p0651
Robotics Science and System 2025
B. Muraccioli, M. Celerier, M. Benallegue, G. Venture, Demonstrating a Control Framework for Physical Human-Robot Interaction Toward Industrial Applications. Read here
Interaction studies
X. Indurkhya, G. Venture, Designing and Assessing a Vocalization-Based Behavior Coding Protocol to Analyze Human-Robot Interaction in the Wild, Vol. 25, No 3, pp.281–312, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1075/is.24004.ind.
Robotics and Automation Letters
K. Mori, K. Ayusawa & G. Venture, Safe Data Acquisition for Inertial Parameter Identification by Expanding the Motion Space, Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 6344-6351, 2025. 10.1109/LRA.2025.3566621
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
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.