coming soon all times are JST
2026-5-16~17 May Festival open lab
Meet the GVLab team at our open lab event during the University of Tokyo May Festival. Visit us and come test some of our robots. @GVLab UTokyo, Eng 2, Room 106-107
2026-6-10~12 ARSO 2026
M. Resch's work on "Feasibility Study of Programming Compliant Bi-manual Tasks with Reasoning LLMs" will be presented at the IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impact. @Vienna, Austria
2026-7-6 Plenary talk @Robocup Symposium 2026
GV will give a plenary talk on "From function to meaning: Making robots that understand and belong", at Robocup Symposium. @Incheon, Korea
recent news
2026-4-1 New members
New semester starting with E. Coronado joining the team as adjunct researcher, 6 undergraduate students, 3 new master students and an internship student and a new administrative assistant. Welcome everyone!
2026-3-14 New member
Prof. Catherine Pelachaud from CNRS, France is visiting us for 2 months. Welcome!
2026-3-4 New members
Two new members are joining our team: a JSPS postdoc fellow and a visiting scholar. Welcome!
2026-2-2 New students
Welcoming an internship student from ETH Zurich, Switzeland for six months and a research internship student from UTokyo for a month. Welcome!
2025-12-18 New student
Welcoming an internship student from University of Massachusetts Amherst for a month.
2025-11-10 Award
Y. Zejun received the HAI Horizons Student Award for his paper on "Enhancing Robot Expressiveness with Augmented Reality Avatar".
2025-10-20 Award
K. Mori received the outstanding paper award of the IROS 2025 Workshop on the art of robustness 2025 for his paper on "Exploring Safe Active Learning to Bridge the Model-Reality Gap".
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.
published recently
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
France-Japon-Eco
December 2025 issue
Machines
Design and Validation of a Soft Pneumatic Submodule for Adaptive Humanoid Foot Compliance, 13(12), 1142, 2025. open access
J. of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
I. Frizza, H. Kaminaga, R. Cisneros, P. Fraisse, G. Venture, Enhancing humanoid robot stability on uneven terrain with online foothold calculation depending on ground scanning, Vol. 111, No 123, 2025. open access
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, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 3610-3626, 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, 2025. Read here
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.