Institute (University, Company, Organization) - City, Prefecture
Laboratory, Group Major Topic(s) Researchers Projects
Aichi Institute of Technology - Toyota, Aichi
Biomechanism Lab. Humanoids, Control, Cooperation Atsuo Kato
AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) - Tsukuba, Ibaraki - Tokyo Waterfront
Intelligent Systems Institute 3-d vision, Human friendly systems, Field robotics, Intelligent transport systems, Humanoids, Auditory signal processing Kazuo Tanie
Digital Human Laboratory Humanoids Takeo Kanade,
Satoshi Kagami
Humanoid robot H7
University of Aizu - Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima
Artificial Life Group in Aizu (ALGA) Artificial Life Chrystopher L. Nehaniv,
James M. Goodwin,
Lothar M. Schmitt,
Robert H. Fujii,
Sergei V. Duzhin,
Alexander A. Pasko,
Goutam Chakraborty,
Runhe Huang,
Scott A. Rosenberg
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) - Kyoto
Human Information Processing, Dept. 1: Auditory Analysis and Speech Communications (ASC) Group Computational models of auditory scene analysis Minoru Tsuzaki,
Toshio Irino
Human Information Processing, Dept. 3: Integration of Multi-Modality Sensory Information Neural nets & spatio-temporal modelling Mitsuo Kawato,
Kenji Doya,
Hiroshi Imamizu,
Stefan Schaal,
Rieko Osu
Kawato Dynamic Brain Project, (ERATO),
Waseda humanoid project
Human Information Processing, Dept. 6: Evolutionary Systems Evolutionary systems, Brain building Katsunori Shimohara,
Hugo de Garis,
Thomas S. Ray
CAM Brain, Tierra
Bandai Co., Ltd. -
Bandai Science Teleoperation BeTown
Tamagotchi
Chiba University - Chiba
Dept. of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering Robots for land mine detection Kenzo Nonami
Chuo University - Tokyo
Intelligent Robotics Lab. Sensor planning & fusion, Multiagent robot system Shigeyuki Sakane
Dept. of Precision Mechanics, Faculty of Science and Eng. Cooperation, Sensor fusion Kazunori Umeda,
Kenji Ikushima,
Hisashi Osumi
Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) - Tokyo
Space Robotics Team Space robotics Shinichi Kimura
Toshiyuki Okuyama
Masato Takahashi
University of Electro-Communications (EC) - Tokyo
Kajitani Lab. Mechatronics, Kinematics, Cooperation, Musician robots, Mobile robots Makoto Kajitani,
Ming Aigo,
Chisato Kanamori
Mubot
Kimura Lab. on Robotics Kinematics, Mechatronics, Hexapod robot Kimura
Takase Lab. Robots for production and man support Kunikatsu Takase,
Tetsushi Oka
Yamafuji and Ulyanov Lab. Mechatronics, Mobile robots, Manipulators Yamafuji,
S.V. Ulyanov
Intelligent service robot, Gomi-robot, Power assist system, Iron gorilla, Cat-like motion, Climbing (monkey-like) robots, Robotic unicycle, Robo-gochi, ...
Electrotechnical Lab. (ETL) - Tsukuba, Ibaraki
Autonomous Systems Section Cooperation, Multi-fingered hand, Active sensing, Learning by observation, Sensor fusion Shigeyuki Sakane,
Yasuo Kuniyoshi,
Isao Hara
Robotics Research Group Active Vision, Manipulation, Tele-Robotics, Humanoid Shigeoki Hirai,
Tsukasa Ogasawara,
Toshihiro Matsui
Euslisp
Humanoid Interaction Lab Humanoids Yasuo Kuniyoshi,
Akihiko Nagakubo,
Luc Berthouze,
Kenji Konaka
ESCHeR, Imitation
Intelligent Machine Behavior Section Manipulation, Teleoperation, Planning Tsukasa Ogasawara,
Takashi Suehiro,
Hirohisa Hirukawa,
Kosei Kitigak,
Hiromu Onda,
Akira Nakamura
Cognitive Science Section Cognitive Science, Psychology, Ant colonies, Cooperative and active learning Kazuhisa Niki,
Jiro Ihara,
Yoshihiko Tamura,
Koichi Kurumatani,
Kazuo Hiraki
Mathematical Informatics Section (Information Evaluation and Approximation Research Group) Statistical learning theory, Active learning, Mobile robots, Cooperation, Vision Shinji Umeyama,
Takio Kurita,
Hideki Asoh,
Shotaro Akaho,
Yoichi Motomura
Machine Inference Section Artificial life Hitoshi Iba
Computer Vision Section Vision Fumiaki Tomita Versatile Volumetric Vision
Cooperative Architecture Project Cooperation, Software architecture Hideyuki Nakashima,
Ichiro Osawa
New Models for Software Architecture (MITI), Gaea
Research on Information Integration and Learning (Real World Computing Project Team) Real world computing, mobile robots, Navigation, Man-machine interface Nobuyuki Otsu,
Takio Kurita,
Toshihiro Matsui,
Hideki Asoh,
Shotaro Akaho,
Yoichi Motomura,
Hitoshi Iba
Jijo-2,
Real World Computing Partnership (MITI)
Space Robotics Research Space robotics
FANUC - Oshino-mura, Yamanashi
FANUC Headquarters Automation,. Manipulation contact i Robot
HiBot - Tokyo
HiBot Mobile platforms, New kinematics, Hazardous environments Info
Fujitsu - Chiba, Kawasaki
Institute for Social Information Science Artificial Life, Cognitive Science Hirofumi Doi ERATO
Global server division Adaptive mobile robots Kazuo Asakawa Real World Computing Partnership (MITI)
Fundamental Informatics Section Mobile robots, Neural networks S. Hosogi,
Y. Maeda,
Masahiro Matsuoka
Real World Computing Partnership (MITI)
Fujitsu Laboratories Humanoid robots contact Humanoid robot HOAP-1
GMD - Japan Research Laboratory (formerly associated with GMD - German National Research Centre for Information Technology, which itself merged into the Fraunhofer Society after 2000) - Kitakyushu, Fukuoka
GMD - Japan Research Laboratory
'1st' laboratory (until 2000)
Autonomous robust robotics, Underwater robotics, Signalprocessing
GMD - Japan Research Laboratory
'2nd' laboratory (2002 until 3/2004)
Sewer inspection, RoboCup
Flower Robotics / SGI Japan - Tokyo
Flower Robotics Humanoid robots design Tatsuya Matsui Posy
Hiroshima University - Hiroshima
Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering Active sensing, Motion control Makoto Kaneko,
Toshio Tsuji
GASRPA - Intelligent Robot
Hokkaido University - Sapporo, Hokkaido - Hakodate, Hokkaido
Chaotic Systems Lab. Chaotic and complex systems, Cooperation, Neural Networks Mitsuo Wada,
Sadayoshi Mikami
Autonomous Systems Lab. Autonomous systems Yukinori Kakazu
Department of Mathematics Ichiro Tsuda
Hitachi - Tokyo
Robotics,Aerospace Development and Environmental Protection Mechatronics, Control, Vision Radioactive environments (4-legged robot),
Pipe robot
Honda - Wako, Saitama
Honda Research Humanoid walking robots, Cognitive science Humanoid walking robot, ASIMO
Hosei University - Tokyo
Takashima Lab. Mechatronics, Control, Musical robots Suguru Takashima
Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng. Cooperation, Manipulation Kuniaki Kawabata,
Hisato Kobayashi
Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) - Tokyo
Robotics and Control Technologies Adaptive control, Fuzzy logic Seiji Koide
Iwate University - Morioka, Iwate
Productive Basis Engineering Lab. Agricultural machinery Yoshinobu Ota,
Tatsuo Hiroma,
Takashi Kataoka
Biological Machinery Engineering Lab. Farm machinery R. Torisu,
J. Takeda
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) - Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa
Shimemura Fujita Lab. Control, Mobile robots Shimemura Etsujiro
Fujita Masayuki
Masubuchi Izumi
Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC) - Yokosuka, Kanagawa
Deep Sea Research Underwater robotics Hajimu Kinoshita Deep sea exploration systems
Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) - Kawaguchi, Saitama
Kitano - Symbiotic Systems Project, Tokyo System biology, Symbiotic intelligence Hiroaki Kitano, Pino
Kawato - Dynamic Brain Project, Kyoto Cognitive science, Humanoids Mitsuo Kawato,
Kenji Doya,
Hiroshi Imamizu
ERATO,
Kawato - Dynamic Brain Project
Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) - Kanazawa, Ishikawa - Tokyo
The "Ba" Research Institute - Tokyo Biological autonomy and autopoiesis Hiroshi Shimizu ERATO
Kawada Industries - Toyama, Tokyo
Kawada Industries Humanoid robots Yuji Sato Humanoid robot: isamu
Humanoid robot: HRP-2P
Kawasaki - Kobe, Osaka - Noda, Chiba - Tokyo
Kawasaki Robotics Manufacturing, Control Puma robots, Unimate robots
Research Dept., Electronics and Control Tech., Development Center Manufacturing, Control Keizo Miyahara, Ken'ichi Murai, Toshiyuki Itoko
KDD - Tokyo
Marine Lab. Underwater robotics
Keio University - Yokohama, Tokyo
Department of Computer Science Adaptive intelligent systems Yuichiro Anzai GASRPA - Intelligent Robot
Agent cooperation Mario Tokoro New Models for Software Architecture (MITI)
Ohnishi & Nishi Lab. Biped walking, Distributed robotics, Manufacturing Kouhei Ohnishi,
Hiroaki Nishi,
... see complete staff list
Mobile wheelchair,
Biped robots,
Distributed robotics,
... see complete list of projects
Ozawa & Saito Lab. Vision Shinji Ozawa,
Hideo Saito
Kobe University - Kobe, Osaka
Kitamura Lab. Biped locomotion, Artificial life, Virtual reality, Fuzzy logic Shinzo Kitamura
Tanaka Lab.
Koga-Kuin University - Tokyo
Kato Lab. Mechatronics, Control, Humanoids, Walking machines Kato Humanoid
Kumamoto University - Kumamoto
Uchimura Lab. Intelligent Transport Systems, Vision Keiichi Uchimura
Kyoto University - Kyoto
Adachi Lab. Learning, Cooperation, Non-holonomic-systems, Biped robots, Reinforcement Adachi
Ishida Lab. Cooperation, Vision, Planning Toru Ishida,
Hiroshi Ishiguro,
Toshikazu Nishimura
Distributed vision,
GASRPA - Intelligent Robot,
Town robot
Integrated Media Environment Experimental (Minoh) Lab. Adaptive worldmodelling, Represeantation, Dynamic environments Michihiko Minih Real World Computing Partnership (MITI)
Yoshikawa Lab. Control, Coordination, Redundancy Tsuneo Yoshikawa GASRPA - Intelligent Robot
Div. of Aeronautics and Astronautics Complex systems, Space robotics Kazuo Tsuchiya
Robo Garage Humanoid robots Info Humanoid robots:
NEON,
magdan
Kyushu Institute of Technology (KYUTECH) - Iizuka, Fukuoka - Kitakyushu, Fukuoka
Intelligent Machine (Abe) Lab., Iizuka Vision, Mobile robots Norihiro Abe,
Jiang Yu Zheng,
Kazuaki Tanaka
Nagasawa & Zhou Lab., Iizuka Manipulation, Control, User-interface Isao Nagasawa,
Neng-Fa Zhou
Yamakawa & Uchino's Lab., Iizuka Fuzzy logic hardware Takeshi Yamakawa,
Eiji Uchino
Dept. of Biochemical Engineering & Science, Iizuka Neurophysiology, Biology
Ishikawa Lab., Kitakyushu Vision, Control Seiji Ishikawa
Katoh Lab., Kitakyushu Space robotics, control Ryozo Katoh
Yamashita Lab., Kitakyushu Control, Walking, Manufacturing Tadashi Yamashita
Kyushu University - Fukuoka
Ocean Engineering. Hydrodynamics, Control Wataru Koterayama
Intelligent Robot (Hasegawa & Zha) Lab. Planning, Mobile robots, Vision, Cooperation Tsutomu Hasegawa,
Hongbin Zha
GASRPA - Intelligent Robot
Systems Control (Mohri) Lab. Mobile robots, Kinematics, Control, Artificial life Akira Mohri
Division of Cognitive Science Cognitive Science, Psychophysiology, Virtual reality Katsuya Matsunaga,
Kazunori Shidoji
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (MEL) - Tsukuba, Ibaraki
Robotics Devision Dynamic control, Distributed systems, Kinematics, Mobile robots Takanori Shibata
Information and Systems Science Devision Mobile robots, Distributed robotics Self-repairing robots
Bio-Robotics Devision Control of Underactuated Robots, Dynamic Manipulation, Cooperative behavior of multiple robots, Eye-movement-tracking head-mounted display, Pet Robot Hirohiko Arai
Autonomous Machinery Division Reactive Loco-Manipulation, Efficient Locomotion System in Natural Environment Noriho Koyachi
Meiji University - Tokyo
Autonomous Mobile Systems Lab. Autonomous underwater vehicles, Learning, Neural networks Yoji Kuroda
Micromachine Center (MMC) - Tokyo
Investigation and Research Microrobotics Pipe robot
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Tokyo
Developing Innovative Robots Microrobots, Group or colony control, Snake robots Serpentine robot
Laser & Electronics Group Domestic humanoid robots Wakamaru
Mitsubishi Kasei - Tokyo
Institute of Life Sciences Evolution, Cognitive Science, Biology Daisuke Yamamoto ERATO
Murata Machinery, Ltd. (Muratec) - Kyoto
Muratec Automated Systems Unmanned conveyance systems, Mobile robots, Factory automation
Nagoya University - Nagoya, Aichi
Fukuda Lab. (Robotics & Mechatronics) Microrobotics, Self-organization, Cooperation, Vision, Adaptation, Kinematics, Teleoperation, Bio-Engineering Toshio Fukuda,
Fumihito Arai,
Hidenori Ishihara
Self-Organizing Control for Group Robotics,
Brachiation Robot,
Biped robot,
Six legged robot,
P-MARS,
GASRPA - Intelligent Robot, ...
Artificial life Takeshi Furuhashi,
Hirokazu Houtani
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) - Ikoma, Nara
Image Processsing (Chihara) Lab. Vision Kunihiro Chihara,
Osamu Oshiro
Artificial Intelligence (Nishida) Lab. Knowledgeable community, Qualitative reasoning Toyoaki Nishida,
Hideaki Takeda
Robotics (Ogasawara) Lab. Mobile robots Tsukasa Ogasawara,
Masakazu Imai
Information Technology Center, Yokoya Laboratory Vision, Mobile robots Naokazu Yokoya,
Keiichi Abe
Real World Computing Partnership (MITI)
NEC - Tokyo
NEC C&C; Research Laboratories Computational learning theory, Probabilistic knowledge representation Katsuhiro Nakamura,
Kenji Yamanishi,
Hiroshi Mamitsuka
Real World Computing Partnership (MITI)
National Institute of Bioscience and Human-Technology (NIBH) - Tsukuba, Ibaraki
Ergonomics and Human-Technology Biomechanics, Man-machine interface, Multisensory media environment, Ergonomics
Nippon Institute of Technology (NIT) -
Robot (Nakazato) Lab. Mechatronics Nakazato
Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITECH) - Nagoya, Aichi
Itoh Lab. Cooperation, Self-organization, Reasoning Hidenori Itoh, Lifeng He, Hirohisa Seki
Matsui Lab. Motion control Nobuyuki Matsui,
Takaharu Takeshita,
Makoto Iwasaki
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) - Tokyo
NTT Human Interface Labs. Man machine interface
Numazu College of Technology (NCT) - Numazu, Shizuoka
Nagasawa Lab. Distributed robotics, Mobile robots Masashi Nagasawa RoBoCon
Oita University - Oita
Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Artificial Life Masanori Sugisaka
Okayama University - Okayama
MCR Lab. Pneumatic & visual servo systems Toshiro Noritsugu GASRPA - Intelligent Robot
Osaka University - Osaka
Asada Lab. Vision-based behavior learning of mobile robots, Visual servoing and its application Minoru Asada,
Koh Hosoda,
Sho'ji Suzuki,
Jean Christophe Burie,
Takayuki Nakamura
RoboCup
Furusho Lab. (Dept. of Mechanical Eng. for Computer-Controlled Machinery) Mechatronic, Control, Mobile robots Junji Furusho,
Masamichi Sakaguchi
Intelligent Robotics Laboratory Vision, Sensor networks, Humanoid robotics Hiroshi Ishiguro,
Karl MacDorman,
Takashi Minato
Humanoid robots:
Eveliee P1,
Repliee R1,
Repliee Q1,
Robovie-M,
Miyazaki Lab Active Vision, Control, Space robots, Learning Fumio Miyazaki GASRPA - Intelligent Robot
Shirai Lab. Realtime & stereo vision, Vision-motion planning Yoshiaki Shirai Real World Computing Partnership (MITI),
GASRPA - Intelligent Robot,
Realtime Motion Analysis,
Vision-Motion Planning of Mobile Robots
Faculty of Engineering Science Biology, Neural micromotion Toshio Yanagida ERATO
The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) (Wako, Tsukuba, Sendai, Nagoya, Harima) - Tsukuba, Ibaraki - Wako, Saitama - Nagoya, Aichi - Sendai, Miyagi
Information Science Lab. Cerebral Association Cortex, Psychophysics & Vision Keiji Tanaka
Biochemical Systems Lab., Wako, Saitama Cooperation, Man-machine interface, Distributed autonomous robotics Isao Endo,
Hajime Asama,
Masafumi Yohda,
Masafumi Odaka,
Teruo Fujii
Cooperative swarm robots for maintenance
Bio-Mimetic Control Research Center (BMC), Nagoya
BMC: Bio-Mimetic Control Systems Autonomous decentralized control systems Masami Ito,
Bao-Liang Lu,
Zhi-Wei Luo
Frontier Research program
BMC: Lab. for Bio-Mimetic Sensory Systems Sound source seperation, Acitve vision, Motion planning Noboru Ohnishi,
Jae-Moon Chung,
Kenneth H.L. Ho,
Huang Jie,
Toshiharu Mukai
Frontier Research program
BMC: Lab. for Neural Circuits Cerebral cortex the basal ganglia, Motor control Yasuo Kawaguchi Frontier Research program
BMC: Lab. for Genes of Motor Neurons Basal ganglia, Motor system, Genes Kazutoshi Kiuchi Frontier Research program
Ritsumeikan University - Kusatsu, Shiga
Tokumaru, Watanabe and Nishikawa Lab. Artificial Life Hidekatsu Tokumaru,
Watanabe,
Ikuko Nishikawa
Iida Lab. (Dept. of Robotics) Human interface design research based on human information processing characteristics Takeo Iida
Ishii Lab. (Dept. of Robotics) Robot vision, sensors, and image analysis Akira Ishii
Kawamura Lab. (Dept. of Robotics) Intelligent movement control Sadao Kawamura
Sugiyama Lab. (Dept. of Robotics) Micro system technology; Micromachining Susumu Sugiyama
Tejima Lab. (Dept. of Robotics) Technical aids Noriyuki Tejima
Nagai Lab. (Dept. of Robotics) Multi-finger robotic hand control Kiyoshi Nagai
Hirai Lab. (Dept. of Robotics) Robotic manipulation Shin-ichi Hirai
Mayeda Lab. (Dept. of Robotics) Robot modeling and control, Robotic intelligence for action and task Hirokazu Mayeda
Makikawa Lab. (Dept. of Robotics) Biomedical Engineering, Measurement and analysis of human motion Masa-aki Makikawa
Watanabe Lab. (Dept. of Robotics) CAD/CAM, FA, CIM, Control, Image processing, Scheduling, Neural network, Genetic algorithm Tohru Watanabe
Robotics Society of Japan (RSL) - Tokyo
Robotics Society of Japan National Organization Museum of robots
Saitama Institute of Technology - Okabe, Saitama
Mechanical Engineering Mobile robots, Navigation, Sensor fusion Dong-Ying Ju
Saitama University - Urawa, Saitama
Artificial Life Yuzuru Fushimi
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. - Tokyo
Tokyo Information and Communication Research Center, Advanced Information Processing Lab. Vision, Motion planning, 3D Image generation Hajime Terasaki, Kazuhide Sugimoto, Yukinori Matsumoto Real World Computing Partnership (MITI)
Robodog: T7S, Type 2
Shibaura Institute of Technology - Tokyo
Funakubo Lab. Mobile robots, Teleoperation Hiroyasu Funakubo Mobile robots to aid bedridden persons
Miyagi Lab. Mechatronics, Control, Kinematics Masao Miyagi
Komeda Lab Welfare robot systems, Assisting robots, Security aspects Takashi Komeda
Shizuoka University - Shizuoka
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering - Aoyama Lab. Control, Kinematics Hisayuki Aoyama Manufacturing by Miniature Robots
SOK Sogo Keibi Hosho - Tokyo
SOK Guard robots contact Guard Robo C4
Soka University - Tokyo
Unemi Lab. Artificial life Tatsuo Unemi
SONY - Tokyo
Sony Computer Science Lab. (CSL) Dynamical Systems, Vision, Mobile robots Mario Tokoro,
Jun Tani,
Hiroaki Kitano
Digital Creatures Laboratory
Sony Corporation
Robotics architectures, Vision, Complex behaviours, Legged robots, OPEN-R, Entertainment robotics Masahiro Fujita 4-legged, vision controlled, and autonomous robot, AIBO

Humanoid robots SDR-3X, SDR-4X, QRIO

OPEN-R SDK (the Sony entertainment robot development environment)

Takara - Tokyo
Takara Autonomous toy fishes contact
TMSUK - Kitakyushu, Fukuoka
TMSUK Remote controlled humanoids contact Robo Guard
Tohoku University - Sendai, Miyagi
Control Systems Theory (Abe) Lab. Control, Neural networks, Mobile robots Ken-ichi Abe,
Noriyasu Honma
Mechatronics Design (Emura) Lab. Mechatronics Takashi Emura,
Lei Wang,
Yosuke Senta,
Masayuki Hiyama
Quadruped robot,
Autonomous Car
Intelligent Control Systems (Inooka) Lab. Intelligent control, Human motion analysis, Active sensing Hikaru Inooka,
Tadashi Ishihara
Advanced Robotics (Nakano) Lab. Mobile robots, Kinematics, Control, Cooperation Eiji Nakano,
Zhi-Dong Wang,
GASRPA - Intelligent Robot
Department of Machine Intelligence and Systems Engineering Control Kazuhiro Kosuge
Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Biological Computing Systems Self-organizing cognitive maps, mobile robots Masafumi Yano
Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Brain Computing Systems Self-organizion, Cooperation, Multi-robot systems Yasuji Sawada,
Masaki Sano
Space Machine Systems Lab. Space robotics
Tokai University - Shimizu, Shizuoka
Hoshi Lab. Agricultural automation Hoshi
School of Marine Science and Technology - Department of Naval Architecture - Kato (Underwater Robotics) Lab. Underwater robotics Naomi Kato
Tokyo Institute of Technology - Toyko - Yokohama, Toyko
Hayashi & Iwatsuki Lab. (Micro-systems) Kinematics, Mechatronics Hayashi,
Iwatsuki
Hirose & Yoneda Lab. Kinematics, Control Shigeo Hirose,
Kan Yoneda
GASRPA - Intelligent Robot
University of Tokyo - Tokyo
Aihara Lab. Brain models, Chaos Kazuyuki Aihara
Arai & Ota Lab. Group behavior of mobile robots, Versatile manipulation Tamio Arai,
Jun Ota
CVL Robotics Group Humanoids, Human skill acquisition Koichi Ogaware,
Jun Takamatsu,
Yoshihiro Sato
Dohi-Suzuki Lab Computer aided surgery, Artificial organs, Rehabilitation engineering Takeyoshi Dohi,
Makoto Suzuki
Intelligent Control System (Hashimoto) Lab. Teleoperation, Manipulation, Mobile Robots Hideki Hashimoto Sensor Glove II,
GASRPA - Intelligent Robot
Ishikawa Lab. Vision, Sensor fusion, Virtual reality Masatoshi Ishikawa Vision chip
Jouhou System Kougaku Lab. (JSK) Vision, Humanoids Hirochika Inoue,
Masayuki Inaba
Humanoid H6, H7
Remote Brained Robotics
GASRPA - Intelligent Robot,
HARP,
Hyper Scooter,
Real World Computing Partnership (MITI)
LSS Lab. Human Conscious Robot, Micromanipulation Tomomasa Sato
Hiroshi Mizoguchi
Hideki Miyazaki
Taketoshi Mori
Robotic room
Micro Handling System,
GASRPA - Intelligent Robot
Miura-Shimoyama lab Swarm intelligence, Artificial life, Hybrid insect robot, Micromanipulation Hirofumi Miura,
Isao Shimoyama,
Fabrizio Mura
Hybrid insect robot,
GASRPA - Intelligent Robot
Nagao & Mitsuishi Lab. Manufacturing, Teleoperation Takaaki Nagao,
Mamoru Mitsuishi
Ninomiya & Nakatani Lab. Space robotics Keiken Ninomiya,
Ichiro Nakatani,
Tatsuaki Hashimoto,
Takashi Kubota,
Akira Miura
Cybernetic Systems (Tachi) Lab. Cognition, Teleoperation, Mobile robots Susumo Tachi,
Taro Maeda,
Yasuyuki Yanagida
Ura Lab Underwater robotics Tamaki Ura,
Yoshiaki Nose
Autonomous underwater vehicles
Yoshimoto & Nakamura Lab. (YNL) Driving Simulator, Non-Holonomic Systems, Medical & Space Robots Ken-ichi Yoshimoto,
Yoshihiko Nakamura
GASRPA - Intelligent Robot,
Driving simulator,
Medical robot
Dept. of Precision Machinery Eng. Mechatronics, Mobile robots, Snake-robot Tamio Arai,
Masahiko Hiraki,
Kousuke Inoue,
Luc Jammes,
Daisuke Kurabayashi,
Jun Ota,
Shigeo Ozono,
Yuji Yoshimura
Science University of Tokyo - Tokyo
Hara Lab. Control, Underwater robotics, Cooperation, Mobile robots, Swarm intelligence, Human robot interface Fumio Hara,
Masahiro Watanabe,
Hiroshi Kobayashi
Mizoguchi Lab. Autonomous Agents, mobile robots Fumio Mizoguchi
Tokyo Denki University (TDU) - Tokyo
AI Lab. Mobile robots, Cooperation Masayoshi Kakikura GASRPA - Intelligent Robot
Toshiba - Tokyo
Research and Development Center Vision, Speech, Humanoids, Pipeline inspection, Control, Modular manipulation Pipeline robot,
Humanoid
Toyo University - Kawagoe, Saitama
Robotics (Matsumoto) Lab. Coordination, Mobile robots, Kinematics Akihiro Matsumoto
Toyohashi University of Technology - Toyohashi, Aichi
Systems Analysis (Shimizu) )Lab. Autonomous Decentralized Manufacturing Systems (ADMS) Yoshiaki Shimizu
System and Control Engineering (Terashima) Lab. Autonomous crane, Multi-fingered robot hand Kazuhiko Terashima
TRC - Tsukuba, Ibaraki
Active Intelligence Lab. Real world adaptable autonomous systems Takashi Suehiro Real World Computing Partnership (MITI)
University of Tsukuba - Tsukuba, Ibaraki
Kanzaki Lab. Neurobiology, Insects Ryohei Kanzaki
Computer Vision and Image Media Lab. Vision Yuichi Ohta,
Yuichi Nakamura
Intelligent Robot Lab. Systerm design, Autonomous behaviour, multiple robots Shin'ichi Yuta,
Takashi Tsubouchi,
Akihisa Ohya,
Markus Rude
Yamabico,
GASRPA - Intelligent Robot
Computer Science Dept. - Evolutionary Robotics (Hoshino) Lab. Evolutionary robotics, Artificial Life Tsutomu Hoshino
Vstone Corporation - Osaka
Vstone Corporation Omnidirectional vision, Humanoid robots Info Humanoid robots: VisiON,
Robovie-M
Waseda University - Tokyo
Dept. of Information and Computer Science - Muraoka Lab. Mobile robots, Vision Yoichi Muraoka,
Hironori Mizuno
Dept. of Information and Computer Science - Shirai Lab. Vision, Spoken language processing Katsuhiko Shirai Waseda humanoid project
Dept. of Electrical Engineering - Advanced Control (Uchida) Lab. Dynamic Vision Systems, Neural Networks Kenko Uchida
Dept. of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering - Kobayashi Lab. (Perceptual Computing Group) Spoken language understanding/synthesis, Image understanding, Multimodal computer-human interaction Tetsunori Kobayashi Waseda humanoid project
Dept. of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering - Advanced Computing System (Kasahara) Lab. Robot motion simulation, Parallel computing Hironori Kasahara Waseda humanoid project
Dept. of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering - Narita Lab. Parallel computing for humanoid robots, Compiler construction Seinosuke Narita,
Kento Aida
Waseda humanoid project
Advanced Research Center for Science and Engineering (RISE) - Technology
(RISE) - Technology: Humanoid Humanoids Shuji Hashimoto Waseda humanoid project
(RISE) - Technology: Multimodal Man-Machine Interaction System Man-machine interface Shuji Hashimoto,
Tetsunori Kobayashi,
Hironori Kasayashi,
Atsuo Takanishi,
Shigeti Sugano
(RISE) - Technology: Construction Robot Research Building construction robots Yukio Hasegawa,
Narua Kano,
Teruo Takahashi,
Hisashi Matsuda,
Kinya Tamaki
Waseda Construction Robot Research Project
Yamanashi University - Yamanashi
Mori Lab. Mobile robots Hideo Mori,
Noriaki Kiyohiro
GASRPA - Intelligent Robot
Yaskawa - Fukuoka
Motoman Robotics Industrial robotics
Yokohama National University - Yokohama, Kanagawa
Kawamura Lab. Mechatronics, Kinematics, Control Atsuo Kawamura
Toshifumi Kouzu
Yasutaka Fujimoto
Yabuta Lab. Haptic Interface, Small Humanoids, Learning Tetsuro Yabuta,
Jian Huang
ZMP - Tokyo
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