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Interview Article 'Can We Build a Robot That Has Emotions?' Published featured image

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 …

Appearance on YouTube 'Hakase to Doukeshi': I Want to Be Killed by a Robot. featured image

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 …

Appearance on YouTube 'Hakase to Doukeshi': It Seems Robots Need a Heart… featured image

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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Appearance on YouTube 'Hakase to Doukeshi': If You Want to Know the True Nature of Emotion, Look at Robots

I appeared on the YouTube channel “Hakase to Doukeshi” (The Doctor and the Jester). In the episode titled “If You Want to Know the True Nature of Emotion, Look at Robots,” I …

Invited Talk at the 2nd OCEANS Workshop

At the 2nd OCEANS Workshop held at the Suita Campus of The University of Osaka on March 11, 2026, I gave an invited talk titled “Multi-Robot Cooperation with Large Language Models …

Invited Talk at the 2026 IEICE General Conference

At the invited symposium session “AI Robots and System Mathematics” of the 2026 IEICE General Conference, I gave an invited talk titled “Symbol Emergence Robotics for Creating …

Invited Talk at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Research on Emotions

At the symposium “Cross-points between Emotion Research and Adjacent Fields” of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Research on Emotions (October 25, 2025, Light …