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Four Presentations at ROBOMECH 2026

Our lab gave 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 2nd Osaka University OCEANS Symposium

I gave a talk and joined a panel discussion at the 2nd Osaka University OCEANS Symposium — “Down-to-Earth AI Development with the Maritime Industry,” held on Wednesday, June 24, …

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Four Presentations at JSAI 2026 (40th Annual Conference of JSAI)

Our lab gave the following four presentations at the 40th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2026), held June 8–12, 2026 at G-Messe Gunma …

Talk at the 21st IEICE DPF Technical Meeting

I gave a talk at the 21st Technical Meeting of the IEICE Special Technical Committee on Digital Service Platform Technology (DPF), held on Friday, June 5, 2026 in hybrid format at …

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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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Presented "TARAD" at ICRA 2026

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

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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) …