Upcoming Talk at the 21st IEICE DPF Technical Meeting
I will give a talk at the 21st Technical Meeting of the IEICE Special Technical Committee on Digital Service Platform Technology (DPF), to be held on Friday, June 5, 2026 in hybrid …
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Upcoming Talk at the 2nd Osaka University OCEANS Symposium
I will give a talk and join a panel discussion at the 2nd Osaka University OCEANS Symposium — “Down-to-Earth AI Development with the Maritime Industry,” to be held on Wednesday, …
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Four Presentations at JSAI 2026 (40th Annual Conference of JSAI)
Our lab will give the following four presentations at the 40th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2026), to be held June 8–12, 2026 at …
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New Paper Published in IEEE Access: Distance-Aware World Model-based Reinforcement Learning
Our paper “Distance-Aware World Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Manipulation Behaviors,” authored by Xiaoxu Feng (doctoral student) and Takato Horii, has been …
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YouTube Released: Crosstalk Battle 'Can Emotions Be Implemented in Robots? Takato Horii vs. Suzuki'
A crosstalk battle, “Can Emotions Be Implemented in Robots? Takato Horii vs. Suzuki,” has been released on YouTube. This is a special edition of “Symbol Emergence Crosstalk,” …
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Moe Nakamura Wins the Outstanding Presentation Award at JSKE Spring 2026
At the 21st Spring Conference of the Japan Society of Kansei Engineering (JSKE), held from March 16 to 18, 2026 at the Yoto Campus of Utsunomiya University, Ms. Moe Nakamura (POLA …
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Kentaro Nomura Selected as MVP at CPC Spring Camp 2026
At “CPC Spring Camp 2026,” a spring research camp on Collective Predictive Coding and Symbol Emergence Systems held from March 21 to 26, 2026, Mr. Kentaro Nomura (M2 in our lab) …
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Interview Article 'Can We Build a Robot That Has Emotions?' Published
The 11th installment of the serial interview “Adventures in Qualia” has been published on Yomitai, a web media outlet of Shueisha. In the interview, titled “Can We Build a Robot …
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Appearance on YouTube 'Hakase to Doukeshi': I Want to Be Killed by a Robot.
I appeared on the YouTube channel “Hakase to Doukeshi” (The Doctor and the Jester). In the episode with the provocative title “I Want to Be Killed by a Robot.”, I discuss what it …
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Appearance on YouTube 'Hakase to Doukeshi': It Seems Robots Need a Heart…
I appeared on the YouTube channel “Hakase to Doukeshi” (The Doctor and the Jester). In the episode titled “It Seems Robots Need a Heart…,” I discuss the relationship between …
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