coming soon all times are JST
2026-6-16 GVLab seminar
Dr. Celia Spoden from Tokyo College, Japan is visiting us. She will give a seminar on "Thinking “Disability,” “Work,” and “Social Participation” with Avatar Robots". @15:00-16:30 In person only Eng. Blg 2 room 223 more details
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2026-6-28~7-1 ROBOMECH 2026
E. Uchiyama will present her work on "Evaluation of Scoliosis Using Motion Analysis with Motion Capture", on "Towards Estimating Family Autopoiesis through Interaction Analysis of Perinatal Couples", "Effects of Physical Changes During Pregnancy on Reachability Judgment and Embodied Sense of Self: A Longitudinal Case Study" and "Effects of Birth Process/Style on Mother's Physiological Information from a Wearable Device", and Y. Maeda will present his work on "Implementation and Evaluation of Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Upper Body Rehabilitation Using VR" at Robomech 2026. @Fukuoka, Japan
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
2026-7-10 GVLab seminar
Dr. Diego Paz from ETH Zurich, Switzerland is visiting us. He will give a seminar on "Multimodal Sensing and Scalable Algorithms for Real-World Healthcare Prevention - From Monitoring to Robotics Assistance". @13:30-14:30 Hybrid Eng. Blg 2 TBD more details
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2026-8-24~28 RoMAN 2026
Y. Zejun's work on "Physically Embodied AR Avatars through Concealment-Aware Robotic Control" and J. Lee's work on "Physiological and Emotional Responses of Human and Robotic Companionship during Everyday Activities" will be presented at IEEE Int. Conf. on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. @Kita Kyushu, Japan
2026-9-1~4 RSJ 2026
E. Uchiyama and E. Nakano will present their work at RSJ Conference. @Kanazawa, Japan
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
recent news
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 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".
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.