Talks | Takato Horii | Osaka University

Upcoming Talk at the 21st IEICE DPF Technical Meeting

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 format at Fujitsu Technology Park (Musashi-Nakahara) and on WebEx.

Talk title: “From Cybernetic Avatars to Physical AI: Autonomy Strategies Centered on Bodily Augmentation and Skill Transfer”

The meeting is themed around “Physical AI: Autonomous and Cooperative Intelligence at the Intersection of Cyber and Physical Spaces.”

Admission is free; the meeting runs approximately 13:30–17:30 JST.

For details and registration, please visit the .

Upcoming Talk at the 2nd Osaka University OCEANS Symposium

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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, June 24, 2026 at the MO Hall, 3F Convention Center, Osaka University Suita Campus.

Project Report (6): “Multi-Robot Coordination Using Large Language Models” (15:35–15:50)
Panel Discussion: Panelist for “Expected Outcomes of BRIDGE and the Path Ahead” (16:20–17:20)

The symposium is hosted by the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, in partnership with Imabari Shipbuilding, Japan Marine United, ClassNK, and MTI. It focuses on practical AI development for the shipbuilding and maritime industries.

Admission is free. The on-site venue is limited to 150 attendees (registration required); online participation has no capacity limit.

For details and registration, please visit the .

Invited Talk at the 2nd OCEANS Workshop

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 and Multimodal Instruction for Vision-Language-Action Models.” The workshop was held under the theme “Utilization of Robotics and AI on Shipyard Floors.”

For details, see the .

Invited Talk at the 2026 IEICE General Conference

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 Symbiotic Robots and Understanding Humans.”

See the for details.

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

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 Cube Utsunomiya), I gave an invited talk titled “Constructive Approach to Understanding Emotion: Bridging Interoception and Social Interaction with Computational Models.”

The symposium offered an interdisciplinary dialogue among researchers in neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive developmental robotics, aiming to rethink the essence of emotion across disciplines. I gave a presentation together with Dr. Motoyuki Sanada (NICT) and Dr. Akira Uematsu (AIST).

For details, see the .