Members

Superviser

Yuichiro Yoshikawa

Yuichiro Yoshikawa

Professor

Research field

  • Social Robotics
  • Supporting Communication/Mental Health/Development
  • Cognitive Developmental Robotics

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Takato Horii

Takato Horii

Associate Professor

Research field

  • Cognitive Developmental Robotics
  • Symbol Emergence in Robotics
  • Robot Learning

Kazuki Sakai

Kazuki Sakai

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Research field

  • Social Robotics

Hamed Mahzoon

Hamed Mahzoon

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Research field

  • Cognitive Developmental Robotics
Megumi Kawata

Megumi Kawata

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Research field

  • Mental Health
  • Education Support Robot
Seiya Mitsuno

Seiya Mitsuno

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Research field

  • Dialogue Agent
Tatsuya Aoki

Tatsuya Aoki

Specially Appointed Researcher

Research field

  • Symbol Emergence in Robotics
Kensuke Iwata

Kensuke Iwata

Specially Appointed Researcher

Research field

  • Symbol Emergence in Robotics
Naomi Imasato Carine

Naomi Imasato Carine

Specially Appointed Researcher

Research field

  • Computational Creativity
Divesh Lala

Divesh Lala

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Research field

  • Spoken Dialogue System
Taiken Shintani

Taiken Shintani

Specially Appointed Researcher

Research field

  • Spoken Dialogue Robot



Collaborators

Midori Ban

Midori Ban

Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Ishiguro Lab.

Research field

  • Psychology
Masaya Iwasaki

Masaya Iwasaki

Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Ishiguro Lab.

Research field

  • Human-Agent Interaction
Fu Changzeng

Fu Changzeng

Lecturer, Northeastern University (China)

Research field

  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Affective Computing



Administrative staff

Mai Okawara

Mai Okawara

Administrative Assistant




Graduate students

D3

Chi Zihao

Chi Zihao

Dialogue Initiation by Conversational mobile robot

Shihab Baten MD

Shihab Baten MD

Nonverbal Representation by Conversational mobile robot

Xiaoxu Feng

Xiaoxu Feng

Learning-based Mobile Manipulation

Yu Zhou

Yu Zhou

Improving Robot Skills using LLM

Siddharth Padmanabhan

Siddharth Padmanabhan

Humanoid Whole-body Skill Learning

Site Hu

Site Hu

Explainability of Autonomous Robots

Gabriel Peixoto de Carvalho

Gabriel Peixoto de Carvalho

Robot Motion Control Learning

Katharina Menke

Katharina Menke

Childe-Robot Interaction

Tomoki Asaka

Tomoki Asaka

Controlling Humanoid using Natural Language

Taiga Natori

Taiga Natori

Multiple Convrsational Robots




D2

Hengqiu Hu

Hengqiu Hu

Cooperative Control of Multiple Robots

Devasena Pasupuleti

Devasena Pasupuleti

Virtual Robot for Child Education

Ayush Guputa

Ayush Guputa

Nonverbal Representation by Conversational mobile robot




D1

Yuya Hishiki

Yuya Hishiki

Explainability of Autonomous Robots

Ran Thawonmas

Ran Thawonmas

Avatar for practicing counseling situations

末光 揮一郎

Kiichiro Suemitsu

Human-Robot Joint Decision Making




M2

Yu Kinoshita

Yu Kinoshita

Explainability of Autonomous Robots

Tsunemasa Kobayashi

Tsunemasa Kobayashi

Interaction-based Autonomous Learning

Takuto Tokunaga

Takuto Tokunaga

Cooperative Control of Multiple Robots

Kango Yanagida

Kango Yanagida

Imitation Learning of Manipulation

Li Sizhe

Li Sizhe

Complex Object Manipulation

Ringo Kanayama

Ringo Kanayama

Long-term Dialogue System

Shota Fujiki

Shota Fujiki

Side-participant Robot supporting Human-Human Conversation




M1

Kaito Iwamoto

Kaito Iwamoto

Interactive Generation of Behavior Trees using LLM

Shiho Kaino

Shiho Kaino

Self-Forming Autonomous Dialogue Agents

Kentaro Nomura

Kentaro Nomura

Symbol Emergence based on Collective Predictive Coding

Yusuke Yamada

Yusuke Yamada

Human-Robot Collaboration based on the Free Energy Principle

Futa Hidaka

Futa Hidaka

Computational Creativity in Autonomous Systems

Kioshi Raul Kiyan Oshiro

Kioshi Raul Kiyan Oshiro

Semi-Autonomous Heterogeneous Multiple Dialgue Robots

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Yuvraj Singh

Virtual Robot Supporting Child Education

Yuki Fukita

Yuki Fukita

Robots supporting human-human self-disclosure

Ibuki Matsumoto

Ibuki Matsumoto

Autonomous Empathic Dialogue Robot