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Kentaro Nomura Receives the JSAI Annual Conference Award (JSAI 2026) featured image

Kentaro Nomura Receives the JSAI Annual Conference Award (JSAI 2026)

Kentaro Nomura of our lab has received the JSAI Annual Conference Award for his presentation at the 40th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI …

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Poster at the SAB 2026 Workshop "Wanting What is Needed"

I presented the following poster at the workshop “Wanting What is Needed” at the 18th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2026, October 19–22, …

Tin Mišić Gave an Oral Presentation at IWAI 2026 featured image

Tin Mišić Gave an Oral Presentation at IWAI 2026

Tin Mišić of our lab gave the following oral presentation at the 7th International Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI 2026, October 14–16, 2026, Central Auditorium of the Spanish …

Kango Yanagida's Paper Accepted at Humanoids 2026 featured image

Kango Yanagida's Paper Accepted at Humanoids 2026

A paper by Kango Yanagida of our lab has been accepted at the 2026 IEEE-RAS 25th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2026), to be held in December 2026 in Santa …

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Talk at the NYU CREO Seminar Series

On October 2, 2026, I gave a talk titled “From Language to Coordination: Multi-Robot Task Planning with LLMs and Optimization” at the NYU CREO Seminar Series, NYU Tandon School of …

Kango Yanagida Presented at the 44th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2026) featured image

Kango Yanagida Presented at the 44th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2026)

Kango Yanagida of our lab gave the following presentation at the 44th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2026, September 1–4, 2026, Kanazawa University Kakuma …

Kentaro Nomura Presented at the 2026 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2026) featured image

Kentaro Nomura Presented at the 2026 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2026)

Kentaro Nomura of our lab gave the following presentation at the 2026 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2026, August 17–21, 2026, Waterloo, Canada), whose theme is “Living and …

Yushi Tsubamoto Receives the FY2026 JNNS Excellent Research Award featured image

Yushi Tsubamoto Receives the FY2026 JNNS Excellent Research Award

Mr. Yushi Tsubamoto, who served as a researcher in the Horii Group until last fiscal year (currently a junior resident at Niigata University Medical & Dental Hospital), has …

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Invited Talk at the Young Researchers Seminar of the JSBS Youth Division

I gave an invited talk titled “Emotional Development and Parent–Child Interaction Based on Predictive Processing” at the Young Researchers Seminar hosted by the Youth Division of …

Talk at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Semiotic Studies (Slides Available) featured image

Talk at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Semiotic Studies (Slides Available)

On July 11, 2026, I gave a talk titled “When Purpose Emerges from Interaction: Perspectives from Robotics and Computational Models toward a Semiotics of Life and Purpose” in the …