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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 …

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

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

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Four Presentations at ROBOMECH 2026

Our lab will give the following four presentations at the Robotics and Mechatronics Conference 2026 (ROBOMECH 2026, June 28 – July 1, 2026, Fukuoka International Congress Center).

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Talk at the 46th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Semiotic Studies

I will be a panelist in the organized session “Semiotics of Life and Purpose” (chair: Hitoshi Sako, Tokyo Transportation Junior College) at the 46th Annual Conference of the …

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Talk at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Developmental Neuroscience

I will give a talk titled “Connecting Bodies, Connecting Predictions: Bridging Physical AI and Developmental Models through Cognitive Developmental Robotics” in Symposium 1 of the …

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Presenting "TARAD" at ICRA 2026

I will present our paper “TARAD: Task-Aware Robot Affordance-Centric Diffusion Policy Learned from LLM-Generated Demonstrations” at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics …

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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 …

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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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 …