coming soon all times are JST

2026-9-27~10-1 IROS 2026
Y. Wang, will present our paper on "Latent-Space Action Optimization under Implicit Constraints for Robotic Manipulation", and our colleaugues from AISt will present our paper on "Safe Execution of RL Policies via Second Order QP Constraint Enforcement for Real-World Robotic Deployments" at IROS 2026. @Pittsburgh, USA

2026-10-13 GVLab seminar
Prof. Chie Hieida from the University of Electro-Communications, Japan will give a seminar. @11:00-12:00 Hybrid Eng. Blg 2 room 31A. more details to come soon
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2026-11-16~19-1 HAI 2026
M. Sato will present her paper on "A Longitudinal Exploration of Robot Ontology and Human–Robot Trust Using an Autonomous Mobile Robot, at Human-Agent Interaction 2026. @Osaka, Japan

recent news

2026-9-30 New members
Welcoming two master students, 2 PhD students and an exchange student. Look at our members page!

2026-9-24 New member
Welcoming Tyler Chung from Waterloo University, Canada for a three months.

2026-9-7 New member
Welcoming Michele Angelici from La Sapienza, Italy for a three months.

2026-7-13 New member
Welcoming this year high-school intern for 2 weeks.

2026-6-22 New members
Welcoming 2026 three ESEP summer internship students and one 2026 JSPS Summer Program visiting researcher.

2026-6-12 Award
S. Ishimoto was awarded the Young Investigator Awards for his work on Analysis of Dart Throwing Motion Using a Musculoskeletal Model and Motion Capture System" at the 9th Jc-IFToMM International Symposium. Congratulations!

2026-4-1 New members
New semester starting with E. Coronado re-joining the team as adjunct researcher, 6 undergraduate students, 3 master students and an internship student and a new administrative assistant. Welcome everyone!

published recently

IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering
T. Ma, B. Corves, G. Venture, A Behavior Tree and Dynamic Motion Primitive-Based Framework for Learning and Executing Robotic Tasks from Demonstration, Vol. 23, pp. 5022-5035. 10.1109/TASE.2026.3663665

IEEE Trans. on Int. Trans. Systems
Z. Chen, C. Zhang, X. Li, W. Wang, G. Venture, J. Xi, Driving Style Recognition Like an Expert Using Semantic Privileged Information from Large Language Models. 10.1109/TITS.2026.3688272

Advanced Robotics Research
I. Frizza, H. Kaminaga, R. Cisneros, P. Fraisse, G. Venture, Compliant Pneumatic Feet with Real-Time Stiffness Adaptation for Humanoid Locomotion. open access

Smart Health
V. Hernandez, G. Venture, Enhancing Latent Space Representation in Adversarial Autoencoders for Exercise Recognition: A Data Augmentation Perspective Using Low-Cost Sensors, 2026. 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.