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2025-12-18 Special Seminar
Prof. Yoshihiko Nakamura from Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE will visit us and give a seminar on "アブダビのAI大学におけるロボットの研究". 18:00-19:00 Hybrid Eng. Blg 2 31A more details
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2026-1-11～14 Conference presentation
Our collaborator from AIST Dr. I. Ramirez-Alpizar,will present our paper on Tactile-based Active Inference for Force-Controlled Peg-in-Hole Insertions, at SII 2026. @Cancnu, Mexico
2026-1-13 GVLab seminar
Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine from MIT, USA will visit us and give a seminar on "Recent results on contraction analysis and applications to machine learning". 11:00-12:00 Hybrid Eng. Blg 2 31A more details
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2026-4-8～11 Plenary talk
GV will give a plenary talk on "The Epistemology of Softness: Toward Human-Centered Robotics Beyond Function", at the IEEE-RAS Int. Conf. on Soft Robotics. @Kanazawa, Japan
recent news
2025-12-18 New student
Welcoming an internship student from University of Massachusetts Amherst for a month.
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.
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, Canada for 6 weeks.
published this year
Machines
I. Frizza, H. Kaminaga, R. Cisneros, P. Fraisse, G. Venture, 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. 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.