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The following project, for which Dr. Jiarui Li serves as the Principal Investigator, has been accepted for Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists. Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists “Prosody’s impact on early social preference: an infant-robot exploration” [KAKEN] Principal Investigator: Jiarui Li Period: 2024.04-2027.03

Dr. Von Ralph Dane Marquez Herbuela and Ms. Yuka Akiyama have joined our lab as a Project Research Associate and a Project Academic Specialist, respectively, on April 1, 2024. Von Ralph Dane Marquez Herbuela, Ph.D.

A paper co-authored by Mr. Aktas, an IRCN Internship Student, Prof. Ugur, an IRCN Guest Researcher, and Project Prof. Nagai has been accepted in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. The paper presents a neural network for correspondence learning between morphologically different robots. Hakan Aktas, Yukie Nagai, Minoru Asada, Erhan Oztop, and Emre Ugur, “Correspondence Learning Between Morphologically Different Robots via […]

Dr. Jiarui Li will give a talk in an online event for high school female students, which will be held on March 24, 2024. You are cordially invited. Jiarui Li, “Elucidating child social learning toward future AI,” Online event for high school female student, Online, March 24, 2024. [HP]

A review paper written by Project Prof. Nagai has been published in Journal of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. It presents behavioral experiments of human children and motor learning experiments of robots that investigate how predictive processing of the brain leads to cognitive development. Yukie Nagai, “Cognitive Development Based on Predictive Processing in the Brain,” Journal of Health, Physical Education […]

We will open our lab during the UTokyo Program “東大の研究室をのぞいてみよう！” to be held on March 25-26, 2024. This program aims to encourage high school students in the world to enroll the University of Tokyo by showing our research activities. Please see the following page for details. UTokyo Program “東大の研究室をのぞいてみよう！”, The University of Tokyo, March 25-26, 2024.

Project Prof. Nagai will give a lecture at IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Lecturer event. It is an open event to IEEE members. You are cordially invited. Yukie Nagai, “Predictive Brain in Humans and Robots,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Lecturer, Online, February 1, 2024. [HP]

A paper co-authored by Project Prof. Nagai has been published in Acta Psychologica. In collaboration with Prof. Yoshida, IRCN guest researcher, the paper presents the developmental relationship between children’s visual attention and their object manipulation using saliency-based model. Lichao Sun, David J. Francis, Yukie Nagai, and Hanako Yoshida, “Early development of saliency-driven attention through object manipulation,” Acta Psychologica, 243:104124, March […]

We will offer a course “AI for Understanding Human Intelligence” at UTokyo Global Unit Courses, which will be held in June-July 2024. Our course will consist of one-week lecture and one-week hands-on projects. Please apply through the following page if you are interested in participating it. UTokyo Global Unit Courses

An application for JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan, for which Project Prof. Nagai serves as a host researcher, has been accepted. Dr. Youtao Lu is going to stay in our lab for 24 months. Name: Youtao Lu [JSPS] Theme: Predictive coding in children’s context-based learning of homophones Period: July 1, 2024 – Jun 30, 2026